Similarly, sites under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme have been affected, including La Palma Biosphere Reserve.
The Ocean in a High CO2 World symposia are co-hosted by UNESCO-IOC, The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
Equally at risk is La Gomera which was named a Biosphere Reserve under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme in July this year.
These are sites established by countries and recognized under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme (UNESCO-MAB) to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound science.
This event was organized by UNESCO, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), and was moderated by Bedrich Moldan, UNCSD Bureau Member for the Eastern European States Group.
The session also coincides with the World Science Day for Peace and Development (10 November 2011) and celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Man and the Biosphere Programme (3 November 2011).
The International Co-ordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB-ICC) is meeting on 9-13 July 2012 to consider new sites for inclusion in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
This year marked an important step in the pursuit of our activities, with the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, and the 40th anniversary of the Man and the Biosphere programme.
These included Mr. Walter Staveloz, Director of the International Relations Association of Science-Technology Centres in Washington DC, and Mr Owen Gaffney, Director of communications, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.
UNESCO, which has a specific mandate in the sciences, has long promoted science for sustainable development through programs and platforms such as the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the International Hydrological Programme, the International Geoscience Programme and the Man and the Biosphere Programme.
The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.
UNESCO, the UN organization in charge of science, has long promoted sustainable development notably through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the International Hydrological Programme, the International Geoscience Programme and the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
The prize targets young researchers carrying out interdisciplinary research in line with UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, and priority is given to projects carried out within biosphere reserves.
Biosphere Reserves are areas designated under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme to serve as places to test different approaches to integrated management of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine resources and biodiversity.
The event, held in Kaliningrad (Russian Federation) on 23-24 October 2012 within the 9th Russian-German Days on Ecology, was organized within the overall framework of UNESCO Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme, with a view to promote thematic, regional, sub-regional, national and local networks for delivery of outcomes as well as for innovating new and green linkages between economy, society and the environment.
In coordination with the Regional Bureau for Sciences in Nairobi and the Man and Biosphere (MAB) Secretariat at Headquarters, implement the ecological sciences programme, including support to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves through assistance to the cluster countries for the application of the Seville strategy and Madrid Plan of Action.
At its 185th session in October 2010, the Executive Board of UNESCO decided to launch an ambitious programme on biodiversity, in particular by strengthening the Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB).
Although a number of international interventions exist for the sustainable management of Pakistan's natural resources, however, establishing biosphere reserves through UNESCO's MAB programme has not been fully tapped, mainly due to weak implementation at national level.
The flagship product of the MAB Programme has been the constitution of a vast network of 580 biosphere reserves in 114 countries.
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