Meeting the restoration challenges posed by the Decade will require the urgent application of the best available knowledge, drawing on a wide range of scientific disciplines as well as on traditional, indigenous and local knowledge – the understandings, skills and philosophies developed by societies with long histories of interaction with their natural surroundings. The interaction of different knowledge will enable robust analyses and models for action that deliver meaningful, lasting and sustainable impact.

Our consortium partner UNESCO will organize a Science and Traditional Knowledge Event side event at CBD COP15 on 13 December 2022 from 15:45 to 17:00. This event is part of the Restoration Day at the Rio Convention Pavilion organized by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

The session aims to highlight the importance of transdisciplinarity and working with multiple knowledge systems in ecosystem restoration and will showcase the experiences of BES-Net and its sister IKI-funded National Ecosystem Assessment initiative in Cambodia and Malawi to apply multiple evidence-based approach to assessments and how these experiences and lessons learned could strengthen ecosystem restoration efforts.