National and regional platforms and networks

A range of platforms and networks on biodiversity and ecosystem services exist at the national and regional level and greatly support, in many different ways, the work of IPBES. For example, many of them facilitate the uptake of IPBES products, including by organizing uptake events for completed assessments and other deliverables, catalyse further activities based on the work of IPBES and facilitate the input of stakeholders into the work of IPBES.

Opportunities for national platforms and networks to engage with and contribute to the work of IPBES

Report of the online dialogue workshop with national and regional platforms engaging in IPBES: Communicating the importance of biodiversity for nature and people (1 March 2022)

An overview of reported national and regional platforms and networks is presented below.

National platforms

Country	Name of the platform	Contact person
أرمينيا	IPBES Armenia	Levon Aghasyan
بلجيكا	Belgian Biodiversity Platform (BBPf)	Hilde Eggermont
البوسنة والهرسك	Federal Ministry on Environment and Tourism	Cero Mehmed
البرازيل	Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services/BPBES	Carlos Alfredo Joly
كولومبيا	IPBES National Committee from Colombia	Juanita Chaves
الدانمرك	IPBES in Denmark	Lars Dinesen
فنلندا	Finnish National IPBES Working Group	Olli Ojala
فنلندا	Finnish Nature Panel	Janne S. Kotiaho
فرنسا	French Committee for IPBES	Nathalie Morata
ألمانيا	German IPBES Coordination Office	Dr. Mariam Akhtar-Schuster
غرينادا	Sustainable Development Council	Aria St.Louis
هنغاريا	IPBES Hungarian Platform	András Báldi
اليابان	Japanese IPBES Platform	Ichiro HAMA
ليتوانيا		Ieva Čaraitė
هولندا	Science-Policy Interface IPBES in the Netherlands (IPBES-NL)	Machteld Schoolenberg
نيجيريا	National Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Platform	Professor Ahmed Dankishya
البرتغال	Portuguese platform	Helena Freitas
جنوب أفريقيا	National IPBES HUB	Dr. Kiruben Naicker
إسبانيا		Miguel Aymerich
السويد	Scientific Council for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at SEPA for IPBES related questions	Cecilia Lindblad
سويسرا	IPBES-CH	Eva Spehn
المملكة المتحدة لبريطانيا العظمى وأيرلندا الشمالية	UK IPBES Stakeholder Network	Jessica Magnus

Regional platforms

	Name of the platform	Contact person
	Europe and Central Asia Network of Organisations (ECA)	Hilde Eggermont

Disclaimer

The inclusion in the list of “national and regional platforms and networks” does not constitute any official endorsement the listed organizations, institutions or networks or their activities and products or their officials by IPBES or the United Nations Environment Programme.