The climate system consists of several sub-systems, including the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere and human systems.

FORBES: The Case for Climate-Change Alarmism

The Ocean in a High CO2 World symposia are co-hosted by UNESCO-IOC, The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

"A majority of scientists lean toward the theory that it was a collision from a large interplanetary body, " said Professor Valeri Shuvalov of the Russian Institute of Geosphere Dynamics.

CNN: Tunguska

This event was organized by UNESCO, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), and was moderated by Bedrich Moldan, UNCSD Bureau Member for the Eastern European States Group.

UNESCO: Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Responses

These included Mr. Walter Staveloz, Director of the International Relations Association of Science-Technology Centres in Washington DC, and Mr Owen Gaffney, Director of communications, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.

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