Europe & North America

Canada

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• South West Nova Biosphere Reserve, Canada

The country is supporting the Regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT), located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Run by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere programme (MAB) with the assistance of several countries, mostly sub-Saharan, ERAIFT is training a new generation of African specialists and decision-makers to apply the ecosystem approach in situ to forest management in Africa.

The Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association very actively promotes the concept and its various applications within different contexts in the country.

Canada participates in a plethora of earth sciences projects, spanning the globe and as diverse in subject as the structure of the Earth’s crust to the formation of the Rheic Ocean.

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

Freshwater

- International Management in the Columbia River System More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Global Change and Mountain Regions (GLOCHAMORE)

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

- UNESCO Chair in Environment and sustainable development, established in 1992 at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) More

- UNESCO Chair on landscape and environment, established in 2003 at the University of Montréal More

Oceans

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

Earth Sciences

- Triassic Time and Trans-Panthalassan Correlations (IGCP, Project 467)

- Late Variscan terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments (IGCP, Project 469)

- GIS metallogeny of Central Asia (IGCP, Project 473)

- Images of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle (IGCP, Project 474)

- Sustainable Use of Platinum Group Elements (IGCP, Project 479)

- The role of Holocene environmental catastrophes in human history (IGCP, Project 490)

- Middle Palaeozoic vertebrate biogeography, palaeogeography and climate (IGCP, Project 491)

- Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions (IGCP, Project 495)

- The Rheic Ocean: Its origin, evolution, and correlatives (IGCP, Project 497)

- Dryland Change: Past, Present, Future (IGCP, Project 500)

- Global Comparison of Volcanic-hosted Massive Sulphide Districts (IGCP, Project 502)

- Ordovician palaeogeography and palaeoclimate (IGCP, Project 503) 

- Marine and Non-marine Jurassic: Global correlation and major geological events (IGCP, Project 506)

- Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution (IGCP, Project 509)

- Global correlation of A-type granites and related rocks, their mineralization, and significance in lithospheric evolution (IGCP, Project 510)

- Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences (IGCP, Project 511)

- Neoproterozoic Ice Ages (IGCP, Project 512)

- Fluvial Palaeosystems: Evolution and Mineral Deposits(IGCP, Project 514) 

- Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor during the last 30,000 years: Sea level change and human adaptation (IGCP, Project 521)

- Arc-Continent Collision (IGCP, Project 524)

- Risks Resources and the Record of the Past on the Continental Shelf (IGCP, Project 526)

Sciences Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More

Sustainable Development

- UNESCO Chair / Network on sustainable development, established in 1992 at the Laval University More

Local and Indigenous Knowledge Sytems

- Cree First nations of James Bay, Quebec More