The following Action Document is the result of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network’s (BES-Net) Caribbean Regional Trialogue, which was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 4-6 September 2018. The event was attended by over 60 participants from six member states of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago (Annex 1). The BES-Net Trialogues are multi-stakeholder dialogues among the three communities of policy, science and practice that focus on specific policy questions at the national and regional levels. In the Caribbean Regional Trialogue, the cutting-edge facilitation event brought together scientists, local farmers, beekeepers, non-governmental organizations (NGO) and policymakers from agriculture, health, climate change and environment sectors.
Over the three days in Santo Domingo, the Trialogue fully achieved its objectives of:
• Raising awareness about the relevance of the global findings of the IPBES thematic assessment on Pollinators,
Pollination and Food Production;
• Sharing knowledge across the policy, science and practice communities on the theme;
• Identifying regionally and nationally-relevant risks and opportunities for pollinators and pollination; and
• Generating commitment to collaboration and action to protect pollinators in order to ensure sustained food and nutritional security and climate resilience.
