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Tsunami ProgrammeUNESCO.orgABCEFGH (-)IJKLMNOPQRSTUVZ News Capacity Building in Inundation Mapping and Evacuation Planning in the Northwest Indian Ocean17 May 2024 News UNESCO Office Jakarta Synergize Actions with the Five National Commissions in the Region.17 May 2024 News UNESCO biosphere sites as educational sites to sustain our ocean in South-East Asia26 April 2024 News Summer School on Ecosystem Regeneration & Ocean Literacy – Call for applications open!22 April 2024 News UNESCO New Delhi Celebrated the Power of Women and their Contribution to Sustainable Development on International Women’s Day14 March 2024 News Seventeenth Meeting of TOWS-WG Concludes with Key Recommendations for Tsunami Preparedness12 March 2024 News Seventeenth Meeting of TOWS-WG Concludes with Key Recommendations for Tsunami Preparedness29 February 2024 News Monitoring the Recent Volcanic Activity in Svartsengi: Insights and Updates16 January 2024 News Tim Curtis, UNESCO New Delhi Director presents his credentials at the Ministry of External Affairs20 November 2023 News UNESCO celebrates the World Biosphere Reserve Day in India15 November 2023 News Biosphere reserves are evolving as pockets of hope6 November 2023 News Welcoming Mr Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO Representative, UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office11 October 2023 News Urgent appeal to action on water scarcity at ‘The water resource: from the Dolomites to the sea – 2023 edition’24 July 2023 Story Ocean&Climate Village docks in Naples for its third edition, with Young Blue Minds in tow27 March 2023 News Dialogue on the Implementation of the New ICG/NEAMTWS 2030 Strategy to Further Advance NEAMTWS2 February 2023 News Women-led research teams receive unique catalyst grants for climate action17 November 2022 Story New Zealand, India, Ecuador and Colombia enhance their tsunami readiness18 January 2022 Story Improving tsunami readiness around the South China Sea13 January 2022 News Towards The Generation Ocean, united to create the ocean we need for the future we want21 October 2020 Story Ocean Literacy for All. Launch of the toolkit in Italy14 October 2020 News Released Ocean Literacy for All Toolkit in Italian on World Oceans Day8 June 2020 Story COVID-19: the ocean, an ally against the virus16 April 2020 News Tsunamis: 'complacency is the real danger'18 October 2018 News Strengthening cooperation for a healthy ocean in Indonesia22 March 2018 News Ocean Literacy for All, a manual for change in a changing blue planet1 December 2017 News Global ocean science education: how we can work together to face the challenges of our oceans1 June 2017 News Learning to assess the safety of school facilities in Bandung, Indonesia13 November 2015 News Indian Ocean Tsunami: Achievements and challenges ten years on24 November 2014
News Capacity Building in Inundation Mapping and Evacuation Planning in the Northwest Indian Ocean17 May 2024
News UNESCO Office Jakarta Synergize Actions with the Five National Commissions in the Region.17 May 2024
News UNESCO biosphere sites as educational sites to sustain our ocean in South-East Asia26 April 2024
News Summer School on Ecosystem Regeneration & Ocean Literacy – Call for applications open!22 April 2024
News UNESCO New Delhi Celebrated the Power of Women and their Contribution to Sustainable Development on International Women’s Day14 March 2024
News Seventeenth Meeting of TOWS-WG Concludes with Key Recommendations for Tsunami Preparedness12 March 2024
News Seventeenth Meeting of TOWS-WG Concludes with Key Recommendations for Tsunami Preparedness29 February 2024
News Tim Curtis, UNESCO New Delhi Director presents his credentials at the Ministry of External Affairs20 November 2023
News Welcoming Mr Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO Representative, UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office11 October 2023
News Urgent appeal to action on water scarcity at ‘The water resource: from the Dolomites to the sea – 2023 edition’24 July 2023
Story Ocean&Climate Village docks in Naples for its third edition, with Young Blue Minds in tow27 March 2023
News Dialogue on the Implementation of the New ICG/NEAMTWS 2030 Strategy to Further Advance NEAMTWS2 February 2023
News Towards The Generation Ocean, united to create the ocean we need for the future we want21 October 2020
News Global ocean science education: how we can work together to face the challenges of our oceans1 June 2017