The ESG-sponsored 2024 Beskydy Workshop, themed ‘Nature-Based Governance: Coevolutionary and Transformative Perspectives on the Biodiversity and Climate Crises’, took place between September 24-26 at Horal Hotel in Velke Karlovice, Beskydy, the Czech Republic. Beskydy 2024 workshop explored nature-based governance in co-evolutionary and co-creative perspective by responding to people and non-human views and for more effective transformation pathways towards inclusive and resilient communities. The programme included 2 discussion panels, 6 thematic sessions and a special session on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) exchange practice.
The workshop was organised around the four themes contained in the 2018 Science and Implementation Plan and the research agenda of the Horizon Europe project Coevolvers. The keynote speaker was Julia Leventon, who spoke about what nature based governance needs to be within the context of transformative change.
The workshop was chaired by Tatiana Kluvánková, SlovakGlobe – Slovak Academy of Sciences, CETIP, the former chair of the 2021 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance, and organised in tandem with the ESG Project Taskforce on Nature and Biodiversity.
