A few days before the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, World Oceans Day provides us with an opportunity to remember a simple truth: our planet Earth is primarily a blue planet. The oceans cover 70 per cent of the surface of the globe. They are the lungs of the planet and ... More...

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the Director-General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri signed a new framework agreement on 5 June to reinforce the longstanding cooperation between both institutions. The first such cooperation ... More...

Three Castles is in one of the most ancient areas of Pre-Druidic remains. The Centre is dominated by a lofty Norman Castle, the ruins of another Castle and strangest of all, the Old Rectory where Eimear Burke & Howard Campbell live is also part of a Norman Castle, one over each other in segments. The River Nore runs nearby, ... More...

As part of the Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development during the week preceding the Rio+20 meeting, UNESCO and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will host a side-event on “Engineering for Sustainable Development”. The objective is to increase ... More...

The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova will be on an official visit to the Republic of Benin from 8 to 10 June. During this visit, she will meet the President of the Republic Thomas Boni Yayi and several government officials, including the Minister of Preschool and Primary Education Eric N’Dah, ... More...

The World Heritage Committee will consider the inscription of 36 sites on the World Heritage List during its next meeting from 24 June to 6 July, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.The forthcoming 36th session of the Committee, an independent body of 21 States Parties to the 1972 World Heritage Convention, will be chaired by. ... More...

The newly released UNESCO video “Learning to address climate change” shows in four minutes why climate change education is important to shape sustainable development and how it works in practice.Today our planet hosts seven billion people. At this time, we use far more resources and produce far more greenhouse gases than it can handle. ... More...

On 14 May 2012 the signing ceremony regarding the establishment of an International Research and Training Centre for Science and Technology Strategy as a Category 2 Centre under the auspices of UNESCO took place in Shanghai, China. The Director-General Irina Bokova signed the official agreement with Mr. ... More...