The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was inspired by the world community's growing commitment to sustainable development.
Water is central to sustainable development, including the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and post-2015 objectives.
The capacity of media professionals to investigate and report on issues related to sustainable development must be built.
She noted that due to increasing urbanization, future choices and policies will be central to sustainable development success.
Culture accelerates this transition, by ensuring that approaches to sustainable development match the context in which they are implemented.
Nepal has yet to identify such sites which could be ideal places to test and demonstrate innovative approaches to sustainable development.
Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care, and economic opportunity.
When she attended her first Education for Sustainable Development meeting, she did not understand how her discipline was related to sustainable development.
Awareness about the cultural contribution of indigenous peoples to sustainable development enhanced.
Participants are exploring the key role of interdisciplinary science and innovation in the transition to sustainable development, a green economy and poverty eradication.
The youth committee headed by Pemberton and Imo will not only plan programmes related to sustainable development but will execute them as well.
Each biosphere reserve is unique, so its approach to sustainable development will also be unique, even if they can also learn from one another.
Other UN agencies are increasingly taking up the cause of ESD as a means to face challenges to sustainable development, such as climate change.
More importantly, it puts forward a concrete set of proposals and objectives to transition to a Blue-Green Economy, the only path to sustainable development and peace.
The book presents a powerful case for the essential contribution of heritage to sustainable development through the study of 26 World Heritage sites from around the world.
And since taking office, my administration has taken a hard look at that relationship -- from matters of infrastructure to transportation, education to energy, housing to sustainable development.
The only way out of the Development Trap, and the only route to sustainable development and an end to pervasive energy poverty is to make clean energy cheap.
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Thus although cultural heritage and archaeology are drivers for Creative Economies that contribute to sustainable development, the imbalanced promotion of heritage can serve to alienate communities, generate conflict and lead to the destruction of heritage.
Moving towards an increasingly integrated approach to sustainable development in small islands, CSI focused on local community perceptions and knowledge relating to the conservation and wise use of freshwater and coastal resources.
Warfare is inherently destructive to sustainable development.
Examples of how the Conventions contribute to development include the UNESCO designated sites, such as the nearly 1000 World Heritage properties and over 500 Biosphere Reserves, which provide ideal laboratories where innovative heritage-driven approaches to sustainable development are tested.
During this session, water management under conditions of uncertainty and risk will be addressed through different perspectives - including water for urban settlements, valuation, pollution and disasters and the need for accurate information - with proper links to sustainable development.
Hydropower development is moving into a new and very promising era, and the HYDRO 2003 conference themes clearly reflect the renewed focus on the positive aspects of hydro, in relation to sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and social and economic development worldwide.
Ten years after the first World Conference on Higher Education in 1998, participants at the 2009 Conference will reaffirm the role of higher education in meeting global challenges - from poverty eradication to sustainable development - while examining strategies to improve access, equity and quality.
The creative line chosen for the campaign is an extension of the theme chosen for this year event, which is "The Future we Want", but also strengthens the UNESCO's commitment to sustainable development and respect for human rights and the environment, valuing the path of education.
At the intergovernmental level, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a UN initiative to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions by slowing deforestation and to invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development.
The General Conference will decide on the proposed programme and budget for the 2012-2013 biennium, which gives priority to sustainable development, culture of peace and non-violence, with a special emphasis on gender equality, Africa, Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and the most vulnerable segments of society.
The draft programme and budget being considered by the General Conference gives priority to sustainable development, the development of a culture of peace and non-violence with a special emphasis on gender equality, Africa, youth, Education for All (EFA), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and the most vulnerable segments of society.
The peaking of global and national emissions should take place as soon as possible, recognizing that the timeframe for peaking will be longer in developing countries, bearing in mind that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities in developing countries and that low-carbon development is indispensible to sustainable development.
During the 4th annual UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum, specialists from UNESCO took part in the discussions on freedom of expression, where the focus was on journalism education and youth communication, and also on the role of education in sustainable development, which explored the relevance of education to sustainable development as well as the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural understanding.
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