Programme
6 July 2021, 01:30-03:00 pm CEST
Using concrete examples, this side event will highlight solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation
- based on inclusive, transparent, and empowering governance processes,
- adapted to local conservation, social and economic needs,
- based on evidence provided by its unique global network of designated sites.
The side event will begin with a discussion on how to address climate change and biodiversity on land and in the Ocean from a scientific perspective focusing on the outcomes of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report: Biodiversity and Climate Change**.
This will be followed by a ministerial-level dialogue with government representatives from Costa Rica and Italy on climate action and global policies with a focus on the G20 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Representatives from the MAB Youth Network and the Youth UNESCO Climate Action Network (YoU-CAN) will also take the floor as actors of change and part of the solution.
The side event will be concluded with an interactive discussion.
The evidence is clear: a sustainable global future for people and nature is still achievable, but it requires transformative change with rapid and far-reaching actions of a type never before attempted, building on ambitious emissions reductions. Solving some of the strong and apparently unavoidable trade-offs between climate and biodiversity will entail a profound collective shift of individual and shared values concerning nature - such as moving away from the conception of economic progress based solely on GDP growth, to one that balances human development with multiple values of nature for a good quality of life, while not overshooting biophysical and social limits.
Hans-Otto Pörtner, co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee, IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop
Through its designated sites and the related conservation and protection standards that their designation entails, UNESCO supports lifelong transformative education and learning. UNESCO also recognizes the important role of cultural and natural heritage for climate action, including the potential of intangible cultural heritage and diverse knowledge systems as enablers for community-based climate resilience and adaptation.
UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme is articulated around biosphere reserves which are model regions for implementing sustainable development. This year, biosphere reserves in 129 countries demonstrate how sustainable development goals are interlinked and must be addressed together at local and regional scales, in the framework of the MAB programme's 50th anniversary.
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