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Progress of Ishikawa Declaration with IPLC Partners(2016-2018)
Tsunao Watanabe, Director, Operating Unit Ishikawa/Kanazawa Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability,
United Nations University
Nature Culture Summit 2018.11.23, COP 14
OUIK
Noto’s GIAHS (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System)
2011 -
1980 - (2016 -)
Enhancing synergies through multi-designation
UNESCO Creative Cities Network Craft city Kanazawa
2009-
2009-
Katano Kamoike Pond Ramsar site 1993 -
International designation sites in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Mt. Hakusan Biosphere Reserve 2 Y.Iida Photos: © Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism League
2016-
Seihakusai float festival
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
Aenokoto: agricultural ritual
Hakusan Tedorigawa Geopark (Japanese Geopark) 2011 -
20km
500 participants from 38 countries approved Ishikawa Declaration
2016 Oct. 27-29
1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity
Ishikawa Declaration Participants recognized and committed:
1. Education and capacity building for practitioners, younger generation, students .
2. Effective implementation and mutual learning among international designation including GIAHS, UNESCO MAB, Geopark, e.t.c..
3. Building platform at every level to incorporate biocultural approach in SDGs
4. e.t.c..
Pro
UNU-IAS OUIK : Platform for local and international partnership and collaboration
Conservation and wise use of Local biodiversity and cultural Diversity
•IPLCs in other regions •Research entities •International organizations
•Local communities •Local Research entities •Ishikawa Prefecture
Operating Unit
Ishikawa/ Kanazawa
Supports for implementation of GIAHS, MAB, LBSAPs
Promote mutual learning to enhance biocutural approach
Provision of lessons/advises from Ishikawa’s Case
Capacity Development : International Cooperation Program for GIAHS Launched by FAO, UNU, JICA, Ishikawa Pref. and local Universities, November 2017
• Capacity development on GIAHS application and action plan implementation
• Satoyama-Ssatoumi management, sustainable community revitalization
• 103 trainees from 37 countries participated.
New !! Noto GIAHS learning programme by UNU academic students that allows local community be aware of larger function of bio-cultural diversity (November 2018)
One Year Anniversary International Forum Series
Biocultural diversity and Satoyama (2017 October 4) Efforts towards societies in harmony with nature around the world Partner; IPSI (International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative)
Preserving Biocultural Diversity for Future Generation (2017 October 15) Partnership of East Asian Countries Partner: IUCN Japan
Biocultutal Diversity in the
city
New commons for maintaining greenery in the city under the mass tourist and demographic change
Way forward towards 2030
UNU-IAS OUIK and Ishikawa Prefecture continue mutually learning among local and sub-national level to improve implementation of International designation systems.
Introducing SDGs as framework into mutual learning process largely contribute to share common perception of biocultural diversity and sustainability.
OUIK and Ishikawa Prefecture provide field/experience-base learning for biociltural diversity in order to further enhancing SDGs.