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Innovative PhD programme becomes official UN Ocean Decade Action (30.12.2021)
On World Ocean Day in June 2021, a unique Norwegian-Pacific PhD Scholarship Programme was picked as one of the first 60 UN Ocean Decade Actions worldwide and one of three Norwegian actions.
Profile of Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere from the open ocean to the West and to the mountains in the East.
2021: a key year for biodiversity (28.12.2021)
2021 saw the 50th anniversary of UNESCO’s visionary Man and Biosphere programme, which brought attention to the importance of biodiversity long before the Sustainable Development Goals put it on policy makers’ agenda. We spoke with UNESCO Chair Inger Elisabeth Måren at the University of Bergen about the programme’s importance.