BES-Net has facilitated Regional Trialogues in five subregions around the world. Regional Trialogues enhance national capacity to integrate findings and recommendations from the IPBES thematic assessments into policy, planning and on-the-ground programmes and projects. The Trialogue methodology seeks to foster mutual learning, intercultural understanding and inter-institutional coordination. With improved awareness and enhanced networking around the IPBES assessment themes, the participants of the Regional Trialogues have been promoting policy reforms, undertaking new research studies and organizing sensitization events across the world.
The manifestations of biodiversity crisis, such as the decline of pollinator populations and land degradation, indicate the approaching of a critical tipping point for humanity. Biodiversity loss is reducing nature’s...
Learn about past Trialogues, including the regions and themes covered and the outcomes.
Target countries: Benin, Chad, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Togo, Senegal The COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult to organize the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net)…
Almaty, Kazakhstan Target Countries Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan The Central Asia Region is currently faced with the challenge of land degradation and desertification. Natural landscapes and traditional fallows…
Nairobi, Kenya Target countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia Land lies at the centre of political, social, and economic development in Anglophone Africa as land-based activities are fundamental to…
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Target countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago The Caribbean Regional Trialogue on Pollinators, Food Security…
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Target countries: Albania, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro According to a recent global report on pollinators conducted by IPBES, 70% of the plants that we…