Putting a halt to nature’s rapid decline requires urgent, collaborative solutions
and actions. Through BES-Net, UNDP, UNEP-WCMC and UNESCO promote networking and cooperation among policymakers, scientists and practitioners to jointly design and implement solutions for effective management of biodiversity and ecosystem services and long-term sustainable development. During its second phase, the project supports policymaking and transformative on-the-ground actions in a total of 18 countries through targeted seed funds. Building on the work of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy-Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), BES-Net II also extends its capacity-building support in four further countries to undertake National Ecosystem Assessments and facilitates science-policy-practice triangular dialogues to help identify cutting-edge nature- based solutions in 40 countries. With a growing online platform BES-Net’s online channels disseminate news, events, jobs and research.
Countries: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Grenada, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Botswana, Viet Nam
IKI funding: 20,000,000.00 €
Duration: 01/2020 till 12/2028
Status: open
Implementing organisation: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Political Partner: Alexander von Humboldt Institute on Research for Biological Resources; Federal Ministry of Environment – Nigeria; Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISIPONRE) – Viet Nam; Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Nature Protection – Kazakhstan; Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism – Botswana; Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDD) – Cameroon; Ministry of Environment and Forestry – Kenya; Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources – Dominican Republic; Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Colombia; Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment – Malawi; Ministry of Planning and Development – Trinidad and Tobago; Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning – ONEP – Thailand; Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA)
