Preserving biological diversity lies at the heart of the new vision of sustainable development that the world needs from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
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.
The Regional Conference of Water and Education of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) for Europe and The United States placed in the preparatory process for the World Conference of Education for the Sustainable Development (Bonn, Germany, March, 2009) and the World V Forum of the Water (Istanbul, Turkey, March, 2009).
Despite substantial improvements over the past 20 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
She recommended reflection, as well as celebration, to involve all stakeholders in the anniversary whose theme is: World Heritage and Sustainable Development the Role of Local Communities.
For the first time in an almost 10-year run of urban design conferences held around the world, the French Minister of Sustainable Development selected New York and its zoning innovations for study.
The Institute comes at the right time, when the world is debating the contours of a new global sustainable development agenda to follow 2015.
World Heritage preservation is crucial because the goals and actions of the World Heritage Convention are not only in line with sustainable development, but essential to its achievement.
Fish is a vital source of protein and is about to become ever more important as the world's population increases to 9 billion by 2050, said the World Bank's vice president of sustainable development, Rachel Kyte.
It is solely through dialogue and peaceful co-existence that the achievement of the world vision for sustainable development, protection of human rights and alleviation of poverty will become possible.
Elhami, co-founder of GISCorps, said that since 2004, the organization's volunteers have responded to disasters such as the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, as well as efforts to provide humanitarian relief, sustainable development, economic development, health, and education in all parts of the world.
The exchanges covered issues from World Heritage Sites and intangible cultural heritage to education for sustainable development, including the role of Scotland's Creative Cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The main aims of this tour are to strengthen Sustainable Development and Governance in the Tara River Basin Biosphere Reserve and in the Durmitor World Heritage site in Montenegro and to reinforce the management capacity of the UNESCO designated sites.
In Education, the UKNC for UNESCO Scotland Committee focuses its expertise and the strength of its civil society network on helping policy development in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Human Rights Education (HRE) within the framework of the World Programme for Human Rights Education.
These presentations will be supplemented by a successful West African case study that demonstrates engineering being used to achieve sustainable development goals and encourages students to make a significant impact on their world through the pursuit of engineering studies.
The Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development is organized by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in partnership with UNESCO, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), the International Council of Social Sciences, the Brazilian Department of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Academy Brazilian Science.
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