Three more countries begin their National Ecosystem Assessments

Published on: 3 March 2021

Dominican Republic, Malawi and Thailand are beginning their National Ecosystem Assessments (NEA), taking a further step towards accounting for nature and its contributions to people, in policy making on a…

UN Convention on Biological Diversity launches new document on National Ecosystem Assessments for SBSTTA-24

Published on: 18 February 2021

The online workshop participants. Credit: UNEP-WCMC In 2018, the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) urged Parties and encouraged other governments to consider undertaking national assessments of biodiversity…

BES Solution Fund: Promoting Innovative Biodiversity Solutions on the Ground

Published on: 31 January 2021

Conservation of pollinators is critical to a sustainable COVID-19 recovery

Published on: 21 January 2021

 Pollinators play a critical role for humanity – in ensuring pollination services which are critical for food security, human livelihoods and maintenance of biodiversity. With the COVID-19 pandemic, these issues…

CAMGEW Puts Women’s Forest Rights at the Forefront

Published on: 14 January 2021

“Women have the right to benefit from forest resources and participate in forest decision making processes while at the same time bearing the duty to protect the forest,” notes Cameroon…

Pursuing pollinator-friendly pathways during COVID-19: experiences from BES-Net’s Regional Trialogues _Part 2

Published on: 31 December 2020

The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) is collaborating with Promote Pollinators to host the second part of the webinar that draws lessons on pollination from BES-Net’s Regional Trialogues. The virtual event will…

BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#8): Impact of post COVID-19 recovery efforts on LDN targets and post-2020 Aichi global biodiversity framework – Potentially positive impacts and policy implications

Published on: 10 December 2020

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of the relationship between people and nature. While the relationship between nature and zoonotic disease is complex, it is…

IPBES’ 4th meeting of Capacity Building Forum puts spotlight on national biodiversity platforms

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As the world slowly tries to build back better from the unprecedented impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the focus, more than ever, is on recalibrating our relationship with nature…

BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#7): Impact of post COVID-19 recovery efforts on LDN targets and post-2020 Aichi global biodiversity framework – Potentially negative impacts

Published on: 8 December 2020

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of the relationship between people and nature. While the relationship between nature and zoonotic disease is complex, it is…

BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#6): Linkage between land degradation and zoonotic disease outbreak – Evidence-based examples and policy implications

Published on: 3 December 2020

While zoonotic diseases are considered as one of the most pressing global issues of our era as a result of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks, a renewed focus is also…