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

Incorporating Biocultural approach into SDGs

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.

Thank you.

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