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IPBES Values Assessment: integrating indigenous and local knowledge with scientific knowledge leads to more just and sustainable social and ecological outcomes

Today the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES released its Methodological assessment on the Diverse Conceptualization of the Multiple Values of Nature and its Benefits in Bonn Germany This assessment has been prepared in partnership with UNESCO one of the four main institutional United Nations partners of IPBES along with FAO UNEP and UNDP

New assessment offers options to ensure sustainable use

Today the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES released its Thematic Assessment of the Sustainable Use of Wild Species in Bonn Germany This assessment has been prepared in partnership with UNESCO one of the four main institutional United Nations partners of IPBES along with UNEP FAO and UNDP

UNESCO designates 11 new biosphere reserves

UNESCO has approved the designation of 11 new biosphere reserves in 9 countries including three countries for the first time Chad Georgia and Zambia Two existing biosphere reserves in Spain have also been extended With the new designations the World Network of Biosphere Reserves totals 738 sites in 134 countries

UNESCO and Spain have renewed their commitment to the International Centre on Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves

UNESCO x Guerlain Women for Bees programme celebrates World Bee Day

Women for Bees is a stateoftheart female beekeeping entrepreneurship programme launched by UNESCO and Guerlain Implemented in UNESCO designated biosphere reserves around the world the programme promotes womens empowerment together with biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the Congo Basin to become a knowledge hub in climate and biodiversity

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve lies at the heart of the secondlargest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon Situated in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo the biosphere reserve stretches over a distance of 2 350 km2 an area larger than the size of Mauritius On 21 March UNESCO organized a meeting with its partners to finetune a project which aims to turn Yangambi Biosphere Reserve into a hub for climate and biodiversity monitoring over the next 18 months

UNESCO designates 8 new Global Geoparks

UNESCOs Executive Board has approved the designation of 8 new UNESCO Global Geoparks bringing the number of sites participating in the Global Geoparks Network to 177 in 46 countries Two new countries Luxembourg and Sweden this year join the Global Network with the designation of their first geoparks

All-girl team from the Philippines wins Sustainable Engineering Hackathon on UNESCO’s World Engineering Day

An allgirl team of university students from the Philippines has won a hackathon marking UNESCOs World Engineering for Sustainable Development Day on 4 March Ghia Luwalhati Nicole Elizabeth Tan and Reaner Jacqueline Bool from the WONDERPETS team 1 from Batangas State University in the Philippines used Metal Organic Frameworks which are novel adsorbents to turn recycled plastic bottles into a type of sponge that is extremely porous making it an effective means of removing pollutants from water Better still the sponge can be used again and again

From commitments to action for nature: UNESCO at the UN Environment Assembly

During the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA52 in Nairobi Kenya Ms Shamila NairBedouelle Assistant DirectorGeneral for Natural Sciences of UNESCO reaffirmed the Organizations headline commitment at a side event on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from commitments to action for nature on 28 February 2022

Surviving where life is no longer possible

February 24, 2022