Dear participants, during these days we heard speeches, presentations, debates, we talked a lot each other. As panelist and many participants have been underlined, we experienced the crucial importance of a regular and continuous keeping in touch, to improve relationships, and to update our information on the policies at international and national level.In other words, […]
The 8th World Environmental Education Congress has been opened on Monday, June 29th, in Goteborg (Sweden) during an opening ceremony chaired by Katarina Gärdfeldt, director of the centre of environment and sustainability GMV at University of Goteborg and Chalmers University of technology (Sweden).At the moment over 800 participants from 75 countries are attending the Congress, […]
Distinguished representatives of the international institutions, of the City of Gothenburg and of Gothenburg and Chalmers Universities, dear friends and colleagues involved in environmental education, many warmest thanks for attending this 8th congress in Gothenburg. Many thanks also to all people unable to attend the congress for a lot of reasons as scarcity of funds […]
The 3rd edition of Pan-European Days of Environmental Education toward Sustainability will be held in Barcelona, the 1st and the 2nd of October 2015. This upcoming 3rd edition is organised by the Minister for Territory and Sustainability of the Catalan Region with the support of the Secretariat of World Environmental Education Congress and the Four […]
In the Fall of 2014, the association “Paris Education 2015” wrote a position paper entitled “Paris Climate 2015: Let’s Also Talk About Education.” As a result, the French Government, and in particular the Ministry of National Education, designated a Thematic Day to discuss education for sustainable development during the COP21 that will take place in Paris in December 2015.
The text below serves as a proposal, so that, in accordance with their respective governments, Ministries of Education gathered in Paris during the conference on Climate Change:
– Express and affirm the significant role education can play in the transition towards sustainable development.
– Decide to build the necessary mechanisms to accelerate an educational transition by dedicating a significant part of carbon commerce and taxation to this project.
– Create a national and international legal framework to share revenues generated by greenhouse gases.
To reach these goals, we hope to obtain a maximum of signatories for this memorandum and give it more punch in order to influence decision makers.
We would be honored to count you as a signatory who would participate in this adventure towards a necessary change in education as a tool to fight against climate disturbance.
Correspondance : yves.reinkin@skynet.be
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For signing the text, the form is at this address. Thank you for sharing it as widely as possible
The third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) took place from 14-18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan. (See more) Participants discussed and adopted the successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015, an internationally agreed plan to make the world safer from natural hazards. In addition to intergovernmental negotiations on the details of the successor agreement, the conference comprised ministerial roundtables, high-level multi-stakeholder partnership dialogues, working sessions and many other events organized in and around the conference venue at the Sendai International Centre.
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Towards more critical and more meaningful education and learning for sustainability – moving beyond the DESD
Preview of the monthly Italian magazine on environmental education “.eco” num 206-207
Arjen Wals (Wageningen Univeristy, The Netherlands, & University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
This brief personal reflection is based on two reviews I was commissioned to carry out by UNESCO of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (Wals 2009a, 2009b, 2012) and a special report on social learning-based ESD prepared for the end of the DESD conference as a backdrop Wals et al. 2014), I conclude that in order to address prevailing un-sustainability citizens, young and old, need to become active participants in transitions that break with dominating routines founded on untenable principles and values. Another key conclusion is that the DESD has unwillingly ignored the loss of identity and sense of place that is affecting citizens across the globe as a result of globalization and the related ICT-revolution. This is where environmental education has a lot of experience and a lot to contribute to the Global Action Programme for ESD that will be launch in November of this year in Nagoya Japan. I will close this contribution by stressing the synergy between environmental education and sustainability education which is also a key premise of the 8th WEEC congress in 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Permanent Secretariat has consulted those who have already joined the network by endorsing the Charter of Principles. The question asked was about the future developments and in particular on the choice to make the network more formal and “institutionalized”. The vast majority said “Yes” to the formal subscription to the international network. Only 1 […]
Your Royal Highness,
Today we have the great pleasure to open the 7th WEEC in Your presence and under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King of Morocco Mohammed VI.
Your Royal Highness, autorities and delegates of international, national and local institutions, dear participants coming from Morocco and from all over the World
Firts of all, I would like to thank sincerely the King of Morocco, the Mohammed VI Foundation for the protection of the environment and its President Her Royal Highness the Princess Lalla Hasnaa, the Foundation’s team and all those that have contributed, here in Morocco, to the congress’ organisation and to the success of this important international meeting : the people, the institutions, the Morocco’s scientific community and the city of Marrakech for their generous commitment.
I would also like to thank, in particularly, UNESCO, UNEP and ISESCO, whose highest delegates are taking part in this congress.
At the end of the closing ceremony of the 7th WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress), held from 9 to 14 June 2013 in Marrakech (Morocco), an Appeal was launched to emphasise the role of environmental education and the need to activate more and more political and economic tools in this sector. The appeal was drawn […]
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