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Mr Lars Leijonborg, Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research,
Mr Marcio N. Barbosa, Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and Mr Walter
Erdelen, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences (UNESCO)
launched this five-year cooperative agreement at a ceremony during
the UNESCO's 34th session of the General Conference, at the conclusion
of a panel discussion on Biosphere Resilience, which was moderated
by Professor Thomas Elmqvist (Sweden), Chairperson of the International
Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University will cooperate
with UNESCO in promoting Biosphere Resilience, a research approach
that analyses the dynamics between ecosystem services, climate change
and economic progress as one single field of study. The agreement
is an ambitious collaborative policy relevant research program and
represents an essential opportunity to leverage science for policy
and impact major global scientific programs such as the follow up
to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the UN effort to tackle
Climate change.
This joint program will also contribute to DESD Decade and the
Millennium Development Goals. Together, UNESCO and the Stockholm
Resilience Centre are aiming at five specific areas:
- Building capacities in developing countries for sustainability
science
- Achieving understanding of links between society and environmental
goals
- Promoting education for sustainable development across the world
- Contributing to stronger linkages between science and policy
at all levels
- Contributing to building knowledge societies for sustainability.
The collaboration will be using biosphere reserves of the World
Network of Biosphere Reserves as demonstration and learning platforms
for research on socio-ecological systems and sustainable development.
A panel discussion on Biosphere Resilience
was held in UNESCO, on 19 October 2007 during the 34th session of
the General Conference of UNESCO.
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