Natural Sciences (Videos)
Natural Sciences (Videos)
Unesco
Science and technology are key components of social integration, sustainable development and poverty eradication based on equity, freedom, justice, governance and solidarity. The UNESCO's Basic sciences programme deals with molecular biology, biotechnology, chemistry, pure and applied physics and mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary areas that underlie human health, the preservation of the environment and human well-being.
Key issues concerning the oceans
UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), talks about key issues concerning the oceans during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.
Jan 1, 2013
13 min
Video
Q and A session for Jeffrey Sachs, the keynote speaker - Connect Asia - Building a Green Society
A quostionaire from Philliphines asks Prof. Sachs about the linkage of his clinical economics concepts with the concept of Green Society.
Jan 1, 2011
4 min
Video
The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation, Martin Lees - Connect Asia - Building a Green Society
First Speaker for the Science, Prof. Martin Lees, former Secretary General of Club of Rome, talks about The Role of Science, Technology & Innovation in the Transition to a Green Economy.
Jan 1, 2011
8 min
Video
Sustainable Projects
Johanna Mac Taggart, coordinator of the Swedish biosphere reserve of lake Varnen and organizer of the "farming systems & food security" workshop, March 2011, 24th , 25th. Extract: "We have a proposal to create a structure we call an « ecosystem venture incubator », so we work to promote more benefits from the ecosystems, more business development around this, and we're trying to create a space where people can meet to develop their ideas." Recorded at the "farming systems and food security workshop", UNESCO, March 24 - 25 2011
Jan 1, 2011
3 min
Science and Peace - Dudley R. Herschbach
Professor Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" Here he discusses the links between science and peace
Jan 1, 2011
6 min
Video
Educating for a Sustainable Future, Hans van Ginkel - Connect Asia - Building a Green Society
Prof. Hans van Ginkel, former rector of United Nations University, talks about Educating for a Sustainable Future from from Utrecht University, Holland.
Jan 1, 2011
9 min
Video
Connect Asia - Building a Green Society: Closing
Closing remarks by Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture Mr. Mohammad Nuh.
Jan 1, 2011
2 min
Video
Q and A session for the culture speakers - Connect Asia - Building a Green Society
UNESCO's Director General Ms. Irina Bokova and a participant comments about the role of culture from their respective perspectives.
Jan 1, 2011
7 min
Video
Q and A session for the education speakers - Connect Asia - Building a Green Society
Ms. Desi Anwar and a distant participant asks the panelists about the challenge of governments for the need of changing education for Sustainable Development.
Jan 1, 2011
7 min
Video
Science and Peace - Walter Kohn
professor Walter Kohn is an American theoretical physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 13, 1998 for his development of the density-functional theory. He talks about his work and about the role of science in the quest for peace
Jan 1, 2011
6 min
Video
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