UNESCO Montevideo launches a consultation of Latin America and the Caribbean to confront challenges related to climate change and risk in the region’s UNESCO Global Geoparks and Biosphere Reserves
In 2020, UNESCO’s regional office of the Sciences for Latin America and the Caribbean has committed to a regional consultation with experts linked to UNESCO Global Geoparks and Biosphere Reserves, to develop a regional UNESCO Sites climate, risk and resilience platform, in order to tackle challenges in in today's world.
The objective of this consultation is to gather climate action and risk experiences, knowledge and data from UNESCO Global Geoparks and Biosphere Reserves from the entire region; and to support the UNESCO Latin American and the Caribbean Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to determine the desirable scope and focus of such a platform. However, with the central task is to support the UNESCO site to confront the challenges they face due climate change and risk.
“It is important that we take an approach to these issues based on research and dialogue with regional experts. We are confident that the platform will be a great start for a group of specialists committed to climate action and resilience”,
explained the specialist Denise Gorfinkiel, head of UNESCO's Geoscience and Geoparks Program for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The TAG, which was convened in August 2020 by UNESCO Montevideo, consists of approximately 23 experts, representing 11 countries in the region. Their first meeting is scheduled for September 14th to 16th, and will be on-line. Aside from procedural decisions to be made, the aim of the event will be to design an action plan and jointly plan the first research and analysis project.
“The platform will be a space for sharing and raising awareness of important community initiatives, scientific studies and innovative activities. Above all, it would serve to bring together the technical capacity that is developed across the UNESCO Global Geoparks, Biosphere Reserves, UNESCO networks and Chairs in the region”,
specified Serena Heckler, Ecological and Earth Sciences regional specialist and coordinator of the Man and the Biosphere Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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