At the 8th ESP World conference in 2015, ESP decided to organize ESP World conferences bi-annually, and regional conferences in the intermediate years. The aim of these regional conferences is to enable people from all around the world to share ecosystem services knowledge and strengthen local networks.
Upcoming conferences
- 11th ESP World Conference, 2025, Darwin, Australia
- 6th ESP Europe Conference, May 2026, Prague, Czechia
Suggestions for other regional conferences are welcome, especially from regions not mentioned above. If you are interested in organising an ESP conference, you can express interest by filling out this form and sending it to [email protected].
Previously held regional conferences
- 5th ESP Europe Conference (2024), Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health, 18-22 November 2024, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- 4th International ESP Latin America and Caribbean Conference (2023), Sharing knowledge about ecosystem services and natural capital to build a sustainable future, 6-10 November 2023, La Serena, Chile (hybrid conference)
- ACES Conference (2022), Ecosystem Markets – Making Them Work, 12-15 December 2022, Washington, DC, USA
- 4th ESP Europe Conference (2022), Ecosystem services empowering people and societies in times of crises, 10-14 October 2022, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (hybrid conference)
- 3rd ESP Africa Conference (2022), Ecosystem services for the future:Delivering value for Nature, Livelihoods and Economic Investment, 8-10 June 2022, Musanze, Rwanda (hybrid conference)
- 3rd ESP Asia ESP Conference (2021), Eco-health and ecosystem services in Asia:Bottom-up aspects for planetary health, 14-17 December 2021, Nagasaki, Japan (online conference)
- 3rd ESP Europe Conference (2021), Ecosystem Service Science, Policy and Practice in the face of Global Changes, 7-10 June, Tartu, Estonia (hybrid conference)
- 3rd ESP Latin America and the Caribbean Conference (2020), Transcending the study of Ecosystem Services towards Transdiscipline and Incidence, 25-27 November, Mexico City, Mexico (online conference)
- 2nd ESP Africa Conference (2019), Management of Ecosystem Services for Nature Conservation and Human Wellbeing in Africa, 17-20 June, Kpalimé, Togo
- ACES Conference (2018), Natural resources benefitting people, 3-6 December, Washington, DC, USA
- 2nd ESP Latin America and the Caribbean Conference (2018), Global changes, ecosystem services and multilateral agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean, 22-25 October, Campinas, Brazil
- 2nd ESP Europe Conference (2018), Ecosystem services in a changing world: moving from theory to practice, 15-19 October, San Sebastian, Spain
- 2nd ESP Asia Conference (2018), Communicating and Engaging Ecosystem Services in Policy and Practice in Asia, 9-13 October, Dehradun, India
- ESP MENA Conference (2018), Enhancing ecosystem services through ecological restoration for nature and people, 22-25 April 2018, Dead Sea, Jordan
- ACES and ESP Conference (2016) on Ecosystem Services, 5-9 December 2016, Jacksonville, USA
- ESP Africa Conference (2016), Ecosystem Services for SDGs in Africa, 21-25 November 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
- ESP Latin America Conference (2016), Healthy ecosystems for resilient societies, 18-22 October 2016, Cali, Colombia
- European Ecosystem Services Conference (2016), Helping nature to help us, 19-23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium
- ESP Asia Conference (2016), Ecosystem services for nature based solutions, 30 May-3 June 2016, Ansan-si, Korea