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UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019 Presented at the Information Meeting on ‘Advancing the Agenda on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Application of Ecosystem Services and Nature Based Solutions’ UNESCO Climate Change Strategy
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UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019
Presented at the Information Meeting on ‘Advancing the Agenda on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Application of Ecosystem Services and Nature Based Solutions’
UNESCOClimate Change Strategy
UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019
UNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change
The objective of the UNESCO Strategy is to enable Member States to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts through education, sciences, culture, information and communication, in line with their respective National Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the COP 21 Paris Agreement, and in the overall context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDG 13.
39th session of the General Conference, October 2017
UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019
UNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change
Priority is given to actions contributing to gender equality, Africa, small island developing States (SIDS) and the engagement of youth. All actions should also, as appropriate, be consistent with and supportive of relevant action plans, policies and agreements developed by or endorsed by UNESCO, such as the UNESCO SIDS Action Plan, the LINKS Programme and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
39th session of the General Conference, October 2017
UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019
UNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change
Thematic action focus areas: (a) Supporting Member States to develop and implement climate change education and public awareness programmes and policies; (b) Promoting interdisciplinary climate knowledge and scientific cooperation for climate change mitigation and adaptation; (c) Promoting cultural diversity and cultural heritage safeguarding for climate change mitigation and adaptation; (d) Supporting inclusive social development, fostering intercultural dialogue and promoting ethical and gender equality principles in relation to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019
UNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change
Disaster risk reduction
The Strategy recognizes the links between climate change and disaster risk reduction and the the need to increase the resilience of communities to climate change and extreme weather phenomena through systematic planning and capacity development, including through gender responsive components.
For this purpose, UNESCO will assist Member States to provide a platform for enhancing cooperation in knowledge-sharing, policy advice and education for disaster preparedness and mitigation and supporting the further development of risk reduction networks and hazard warning systems.
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UNESCO – IOC Tsunami Early Warning System
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UNESCO’s contribution to Disaster Risk Reduction
• Improving Risk Information and Early Warning Systems
• School Safety
• Community Resilience
• Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Situations
• Making Disaster Risk Reduction a Priority through Policy Recommendations
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UNESCO’s contribution to Disaster Risk Reduction
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Protecting the biosphere and ecosystem services as the foundation for the SDGs and DRR
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UNESCO actions for CCA and DRR
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UNESCO UNESCO Task Team on Climate Change / Peter Dogsé / Co-Chair 27 February, 2019
1918 sites in total:
World Heritage: 1092 Properties (845 Cultural, 209 Natural, 38 Mixed) 167 States Parties
MAB: 686 Biosphere Reserves in 122 countries.
Geoparks: 140 UNESCO Global Geoparks in 38 countries.
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UNESCO Designated Sites:
• Key instruments in the implementation of the UNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change
• A unique network contributing to nature based solutions to disaster risk reduction at the local, regional and global scales
• Ideal for international cooperation and exchange of good practises
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UNESCO Designated Sites and Natural Disasters
Earthquakes
FloodsWildfire
Mass movements
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UNESCO is a proud participant in OPERANDUM Funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
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UNESCO Designated Sites in OPERANDUM
Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve (Germany)Wet and dry cycles, flooding
POTENTIAL NATURE-BASED AND HYBRID SOLUTIONSReinforcement of decentralized retention areas in the
marshland, unsealing areas and land-use changes, re-activating floodplains, re-naturation of embankments
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UNESCO Designated Sites in OPERANDUM
Benefits by the end of the project at local level• Detailed risk assessment• Co-creation of disaster risk management plan• Implementation of eco-DRR solutions• Establishment of monitoring system
At national and global level• Creation of guidelines of eco-DRR for
natural UNESCO sites• Capacity building for practitioners in and
outside EU• Use the case for eco-DRR advocacy during
DRR events
Delta Po Biosphere ReserveFerrara and the Po River Delta
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UNESCO Advocacy and Outreach on Nature Based Solutions
Over 40 participants from 17 countries and 15 BiosphereReserves attended the seminar“Risk management of naturalhazards in the in Ibero-American and Caribbean region: protectednatural spaces as areas of action”. Akumal, Mexico, 6-9 November2018
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UNESCO Pavilion at COP22 Marrakech
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Youth strike for the climate – Paris, 22 Feb 2019
Youth – an emerging force for climate action
and disaster risk reduction!
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