Climate Change

Climate knowledge and science

UNESCO promotes the continuous strengthening of the interdisciplinary climate change knowledge base, with a focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation. UNESCO contributes to climate change research, assessments and monitoring, in order to provide unbiased data, policy advice and early warning services.

Expertise

UNESCO strives to improve the resilience of Member States to climate change through national and local climate mitigation, adaptation and risk management policies based on science, local and indigenous knowledge, and ecological and sociocultural systems. These efforts are integrated in the organizations' capacities in natural and social sciences, culture, education, and communication.

Initiatives

UNESCO provides valuable data, information and tools on key areas of concern and related opportunities for climate change mitigation and adaptation, notably on water resources, earth sciences, biodiversity and the ocean. Examples include actions to foster enhanced use of information and communication technologies and improved monitoring and modelling to predict and deal with floods and droughts, and the production of the United Nations World Water Development Report.
Towards climate change resilience: minimising loss and damage in Pacific SIDS communities
UNESCO Office Apia
UNESCO
2017
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Indigenous knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation
UNESCO
Cambridge University Press
2018
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Droughts in the Anthropocene
UNESCO
GRID-Arendal
2019
UNESCO
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United Nations World Water Development Report 2020: Water and Climate Change, executive summary
2020
UNESCO
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Mountain ecosystem services and climate change: a global overview of potential threats and strategies for adaptation
UNESCO
2017
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