Natural Sciences (Videos)

Sergio Guevara Sada, President of IberoMAB network, Chairman of the Mexico MAB National Committee.

Extract: "I think the best thing in biosphere reserves is the zonation."

The oceans influence everything and everyone on earth, from climate to crops. Until very recently we knew incredibly little about complex oceanic systems but now the science of our seas is undergoing a revolution.

In this film Earth Reporter follows Dr Susan Wijffels, one of the world's foremost oceanographers, as she and her colleagues collect and interpret data from an array of free floating oceanic robots.

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

Professor Richard R. Ernst, 1991 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his methodological developments within nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, discribes science as "the best way to educate people by doing". He adds "Research is important to get honesty into people. And honesty is a basis [...] of peace

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

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

According to Jean-Marie Lehn, 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, science and peace share a common ground because "scientists are supposed to be open, [they] are supposed to think rationally rather than emotionally, and to go beyond borders"

Prof. Emil Salim, a long time devotee of Green Society and currently part of the Presidential Advisory Council in Indonesia delivers his fascinating point of view.

Mr. Herbie Hancock, a well known mucisian which is also UNESCO's Goodwill Ambassador for Intercultural Diversity delivers his interesting perspective.

Welcoming remarks by Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture Mr. Mohammad Nuh, and UNESCO's Director General Ms. Irina Bokova.