The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945 as the United Nation’s specialized agency.
UNESCO has 195 Members and 10 Associate Members. It is governed by the General Conference and the Executive Board. The Secretariat, headed by the Director-General, implements the decisions of these two bodies.
The Organization has 54 field offices around the world. Its headquarters are located in Paris, France.
Its mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.
The Organization focuses, in particular, on two global priorities, Africa and Gender equality, and supports the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, through all its programmes.
The earth sciences and the history of the Earth offers insight into current climate change and sustainable management of earth resources. The International Geosciences and Geopark Programme (IGGP) of UNESCO promotes international collaboration in the geosciences with special emphasis on the issues of global concern, raise public awareness of the importance of the area’s geological heritage in history and society today and address important environmental and societal challenges with a societal orientation for sustainable development.
Biodiversity loss, along with climate change, is one of the great global challenges of our time. UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB) improves the sustainability of human-environment interactions, promote innovation in linking ecological knowledge to policies for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and strengthen principles and practices to minimize biodiversity loss to the consequences of climate change.
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