UNESCO Promotes Biodiversity And Urban Gardening In Its Own Premises
Noocity, a Portuguese company in association with Cultures d’entreprises, has installed low-tech and sustainable grow beds to cultivate vegetables, aromatic herbs and small fruits.
By India Education Diary Bureau Admin
UNESCO
Jun 12, 2021
Excerpt:
Since spring 2020, a vegetable and biodiversity garden is flourishing at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris, France. It is composed of two complementary projects that represent a coherent spatial entity and send a strong symbolic message about the Organization’s commitment to biodiversity and sustainable development in a context of climate change and ecological transition. It also resonates with UN celebration of 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables and the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
One of the projects, developed and presented by the French National Commission for UNESCO (CNFU), was the subject of a Convention with UNESCO signed in May 2020 for a renewable three-year period and targets young generations with a mostly pedagogical aim. With the support of several partners (Deyrolle, Nexity PM, La Française de Gestion, the Ile de France Region and the city of Tianjin), this garden epitomises the tryptic Nature-Art-Education. To create this garden, the CNFU called upon a renowned French landscape designer, Louis Albert de Broglie, known as the “Prince Gardener”.
