Latin America & the Caribbean

Guatemala

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• Guatemalan forest

The country hosts a UNESCO National Office in Guatemala City.

The country participates in several disaster reduction initiatives, such as the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) and the Regional Action Programme Central America (RAP-CA) for Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction.

It is directly concerned by a remote sensing project that aims to help protect biodiversity in the Mesoamerica Biological Corridor. The project uses space technologies to assess the current overall status of conservation of the ecosystem as a whole, using UNESCO sites as main pilot samples. The environmental assessment will contribute to implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which aims to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater 

- UNESCO Chair on Water Resources Sustainability, established in 2005 at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) Project: Using Space Technologies to Assist Mesoamerica with the Biological Corridor More

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)  

Oceans

- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE)

- Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS)  

Natural Disasters Reduction

- Regional Action Programme Central America (RAP-CA) for Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction More

  
Remote Sensing

- UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) Project: Using Space Technologies to Assist Mesoamerica with the Biological Corridor More