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Prada, UNESCO Complete Ocean Education Program
Women s Wear Daily (WWD) 2/15/2021 Luisa Zargani
MILAN Last year, Prada partnered with UNESCO on an education program called “Sea Beyond” for high school students worldwide to raise awareness of, and promote, more responsible behavior toward the oceans. Now the Italian luxury company and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission are presenting the last phase of the project, culminating on March 26.
The project is in line with the Agenda of the United Nations 2030 and 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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The first phase kicked off in October and ended last month. During this period, high school teachers in 10 cities around the world (Berlin, Cape Town, Lisbon, London, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Shanghai, and Venice) took part in webinars conducted by UNESCO-IOC experts, in which they received training on how to develop an educational module dedicated to the theme of ocean s
(UN News) January marked the beginning of what many within the UN and beyond view as “the most critical decade of our lives”, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Wednesday
[3 February 2021], launching a major initiative to protect the world’s oceans through the next ten years.
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A school of fish in Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula’s Caribbean coast of Mexico.
It aims to raise awareness of the immense challenges and opportunities the world seas provide to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“At the beginning of the third millennium, oceanography has the capacity to identify problems and offer solutions, provided we stop neglecting its contribution”, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said, ahead of the event.
Call to invest in a sustainable ocean management system
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Oceans have a direct impact on weather, climate change and the food chain system, says UN expert
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Oceans have a direct impact on weather, climate change and the food chain system, says UN expert
“We know more about the surface of Mars than the depths of the ocean or complete knowledge about the ecosystem when it plays such a vital role in providing oxygen to sustain life through plankton, weather, climate change and the likes. Nations have to invest in a sustainable ocean management system not just through observation but also through more through data and information and demonstrate the value chain,” said executive secretary, Inter-governmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and assistant DG of UNESCO Vladimir Ryabinin on Wednesday.
‘Make peace with nature’, UN chief urges at Ocean Decade launch
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January marked the beginning of what many within the UN and beyond view as “the most critical decade of our lives”, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Wednesday, launching a major initiative to protect the world’s oceans through the next ten years.
“At the beginning of the third millennium, oceanography has the capacity to identify problems and offer solutions, provided we stop neglecting its contribution”, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said, ahead of the event.
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity
While 2021 has already been dubbed a “super year” for the ocean, UNESCO maintained that it signaled the launch of the UN’s own “massive commitment to our Blue Planet”.