The BESPIN Regional Trialogue for Europe and Central Asia convenes policymakers, scientists and practitioners from Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Trialogue provides a space to examine how convergent climate and biodiversity knowledge can be translated into policy-relevant action, identify institutional and governance barriers and explore pathways for more coordinated uptake across sectors and scales.
While the Trialogue is relevant to the wider Europe and Central Asia region, this Background Document focuses specifically on the participating countries. Its primary objectives are to: (i) distil convergent findings from recent assessments by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; (ii) analyse enabling conditions and barriers for integrated uptake at the national and regional levels; and (iii) inform the co-development of practical action pathways during the Regional Trialogue.
