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UNESCO’s Director General visited Chile’s Tsunami Early Warning Provider

On 5 May 2022 the Director General of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO Audrey Azoulay made an official visit to the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy SHOA located in Valparaiso Chile to review the work carried out by SHOA towards the development of science and prediction of sea behavior in the event of a tsunami on the Chilean coast

Ocean: UNESCO launches emergency plan to boost World Heritage-listed reefs’ resilience

All World Heritagelisted reefs are at risk of disappearing by the end of this century On the occasion of the Our Ocean Conference in Palau Audrey Azoulay UNESCO DirectorGeneral announces an emergency plan to give them the best chance of survival with the support of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs She also calls for an international mobilization to prevent coral reef extinction

Small Islands Development States

Adapting to climate change and educating for sustainable development

UNESCO International Days

Unite the communities around universal aspirations

Ocean Decade dives into action

Celebrating World Oceans Day on 8 June 2021 UNESCOs Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission IOCUNESCO announced the first 166 actions endorsed as part of the Ocean Decade or UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 20212030 as it is officially called

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Structured Financing Dialogue with Member States

UNESCO has adopted the practice of Structured Financing Dialogues SFD as one facet of its overall strategy to create a better enabling environment for resource mobilization SFD aims to monitor and follow up the adequacy predictability flexibility transparency and alignment of both regular programme and voluntary contributions including information on resource requirements

UNESCO promotes full launch of GenOcean Campaign

Four nations decide to create huge transboundarymarine biosphere reserve

In November 2021 during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 the presidents of Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador and Panama signed a declaration in which they undertook to extend the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor to form an interconnected protected area linking their respective marine reserves

Tsunami Warning System: Preparing for the unpredictable

How UNESCOs work on tsunami early warning system reduces the risk of catastrophic coastal hazards that can cause death and destruction

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

UNESCO webinars & open courses

February 21, 2022