Collaborative initiatives such as these, which bring together indigenous and scientific knowledge, make an important contribution to climate change monitoring and adaptation.
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.
Sandwatch is a climate change and coastal monitoring programme which encourages the development of sustainable approaches to address beach environment challenges, while also stimulating local climate change adaptation measures.
It will constitute a unique source of information for monitoring how climate change is affecting beaches around the world.
Bishkek, October 28 - UNESCO's unique network of Biosphere Reserves is set to have a new role - monitoring global climate change.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change said it was monitoring the situation closely.
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The exhibit will present the UNESCO Climate Change Initiative and UNESCO's actions on climate change mitigation, adaptation, climate knowledge, research and monitoring, education and public awareness.
And while he and others have been monitoring the effects of climate change on reefs for decades, they've never been able to do it on such a large scale.
Not least, space monitoring allows researchers to keep an eye on climate change and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, helping to inform scientific understanding of the processes that drive global warming and estimate how big the changes will be.
Other UNESCO contributions to DFID priorities are acknowledged in the Review, including monitoring progress on Education for All, vital input to climate debates and supporting gender equality.
Monitoring changes in water transport are important contributions to models projecting climate change.
"As our monitoring work progresses, Snowdon ECN will continue to track changes in the climate, in airborne pollution and land management, " said one of the report's authors Dylan Lloyd.
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"That does not lend itself to long-term monitoring, which is what you need if you want to study things like climate change, " he told BBC News.
In support of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), the leaders launched a new Andean Glacier Monitoring and Research Center, a regional research network for glacier monitoring and modeling.
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Coordinate with national and international geoscience authorities and policy makers on research, technology transfer and public awareness raising programmes on the use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring, geohazard mitigation, georesource modeling, transboundary geoscience map integration, geoengineering, climate change and environmental geology.
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