Equator Prize 2017. Call for nominations

/0 Comments/in /by

The Equator Prize 2017 will be awarded to outstanding community and indigenous initiatives that are advancing nature-based solutions for local sustainable development.
The winners will join a prestigious network of 208 community-based organizations from 70 countries.
Each winning group will receive USD 10,000 and will be invited to participate in a series of policy dialogues and special events during the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2017.

Nominations may be submitted by 8 March 2017 in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.

For more information visit the website.

Join the 9th WEEC Congress

/0 Comments/in /by

Mario Salomone, Secretary-General of the WEEC Network and David Zandvliet, Congress chair 2017, would like to invite you to attend the 9th World Environmental Education Congress which takes place September 9-15, 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) is an international congress addressing education for environment and sustainability. WEEC 2017 is the 9th congress and will feature the theme of Culture/Environment: Weaving New Connections.

The congress is an international meeting point for everyone working with education for environment and sustainable future or who has an interest in the field. WEEC 2017 will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the latest in environmental and sustainability education, to discuss with people from all over the world, to share your own work and to learn from others. «We expect participants from a wide range of countries – say the organizers – and so invite you to add your ideas and energy to the mix. From the congress we aim to build a relevant network among environmental NGO’s, civil society associations, universities, local authorities as well as institutions from any level». WEEC congresses have received UNESCO and UNEP patronage and in many cases the presence or a message of the General Secretaries.

Adopt a Delegate

/0 Comments/in , /by

The 9th World Environmental Education Congress is proud to introduce the ‘Adopt a Delegate’ initiative, giving prospective delegates from a developed world setting the opportunity to adopt or part finance the registration and accommodation costs of a peer from low-income countries.

Delegates can support other delegates by donating any amount they feel appropriate during their own online registration process. To encourage co-ownership of the project, adopted (sponsored) delegates will carry financial responsibility for return travel to the Congress, while the donated money will be used to help offset costs for registration and/or accommodation.

With this initiative WEEC 2017 hopes to provide additional opportunities and set up a network with researchers and practitioners from all over the world attempting to help the sponsored delegate’s research both now and in the future.

We thank everyone for their support. All ‘sponsors’ will be acknowledged on the Congress website.

Support the campaign: World Environmental Education Day

/2 Comments/in /by

The worldwide network WEEC calls on the United Nations with all their organizations and agencies, governments, the local governments, the parks, museums, environmental education centers, associations, etc. to celebrate every year, on October 14, the World Day of environmental education.
On 14 October, in fact, is the starting day of the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education (14 to 26 October 1977) organized by UNESCO and UNEP in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
The initiatives may coincide with October 14, but also take place in the period coinciding with the 1977 conference (until October 26).
The WEEC network also accepts initiatives that for organizational reasons take place in the days preceding or following that date, provided that they correspond to the spirit of celebrating the founding date of environmental education in the world.

https://weecnetwork.org/support-the-campaign-the-world-environmental-education-day/

Community outreach workshop

/0 Comments/in /by

The 9th WEEC 2017 delegates are required to attend the COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKSHOP on Monday, September 11, 2017, at venues throughout the city.

Venues/Institutions interested in hosting the workshop need to send the Expression Of Interest (EOI) by Friday, February 17, 2017 via email to the following address: weec2017@icsevents.com.

Towards a “World Environmental Education Council”

/1 Comment/in /by

Millions of people and organizations work every day to spread awareness, to increase the knowledge of citizens and their awareness of the environmental challenges of the twenty-first century, to help the changing of individual and collective behavior.
The conferences are the place where all disciplines meet, where each role gives its contribution (educators, journalists, science communicators, researchers, public administrators, etc.), Where the views are compared freely and possibly come together to contribute to the common good.
No matter how each calls this education; environmental, sustainable development, global citizenship, ecological transition …
It’s important to have all the same objectives for the building a greener society, livable, ecological, more in harmony with nature and more in tune with the balance and the limits of the Earth planet.
That’s why the world’s environmental education conference are also the place to build a “World Environmental Education Council”.

9th WEEC, the first speakers

/0 Comments/in /by

The first three plenary speakers for the 9th WEEC in Vancouver (Canada, BC – 9/15 September 2017) have been announced.

Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and its first elected Member of Parliament. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of her decades of leadership in the Canadian environmental movement. For seventeen years Elizabeth served as Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada.

 


David Suzuki, scientist, broadcaster and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2012 Inamori Ethics Prize, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and UNEP’s Global 500.

 

 

Wade Davis, is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 20 books, he served for more than years as Explorer-in-

Residence at the National Geographic Societ Check. From 2016 he is Member of the Order of Canada.

To know more about the speakers please check their bio here

Welcome to Vancouver, the next Weec destination

/0 Comments/in /by

Let’s go to explore Vancouver, the next WEEC congress destination. Vancouver is Canada’s greenest city, according to a 2012 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The study, which also placed the city second in North America after San Francisco— but first for CO2 and air quality — praised Vancouver’s low carbon emissions, high number of LEED-certified buildings and the city’s extensive “greenest city” action plan.

Already recognised as having the smallest carbon footprint of any major city in North America, Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson committed to making this “the world’s greenest city” by 2020. The initiative covers issues of sustainability, liveability and urban planning for residents and businesses and aims to implement programs that will make Vancouver an eco-pioneer and green beacon for communities around the world.

 

2nd meeting of environmental journalism at Cop22

/0 Comments/in /by

The second Meeting of Environmental Journalists from News Agencies in the Mediterranean is being held in Marrakesh from 11 to 13 November 2016, during the COP22 on Climate Change. More than 50 participants among which journalists from 16 countries from both shores of the Mediterranean convene to discuss with scientist and experts how to improve climate change reporting and empower Mediterranean media.

During the encounter the publication “Environmental information in the Mediterranean – A journalist’s guide to key questions and institutions” and an online platform for networking of environmental journalists in the Mediterranean will be presented. These are the two first products resulting from the collaboration over the first year of this network of environmental journalists and communicators from environmental and scientific institutions and NGOs in the Mediterranean.

Call for abstracts for 9th Weec

/0 Comments/in , /by
7th WEEC, Marrakech (Morocco) Registration desk

7th WEEC, Marrakech (Morocco) Registration desk

The 9th WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress) will be held in Vancouver, Canada, September 9-15, 2017. The title of the Congress is CulturEnvironment: Weaving new connections. The Organizing Committee for the congress is BC’s Institute for Environmental Learning (IEL) in cooperation with the WEEC Permanent Secretariat.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 31st, 2017.

The organizing committee in 2017 will embrace different approaches in both the conceptualization and implementation of EE worldwide.
The theme Culture/Environment focuses on the multidisciplinarity nature of the congress and a developing view that Culture and Environment are inseperable and may even arise from within each other. Such a theme of environmentalism underscores a need to abandon notions that everything is measurable or under human control. The real paradigm of environmental thinking is uncertainty in the ways forward vs. the idea that ‘progress’ is unavoidable. Cultural change is also the necessary condition/requirement to rebuild and reinvent our relation with nature and live sustainably. Therefore, with this call for papers we promote NETWORK/ACTION/COALITION.
WEEC 2017 (Vancouver) will be a congress of Cutural and Environmental mobilization.

International Secretariat

Via del Carmine, 15
10122 Torino – Italy
tel.+39 0114366522
secretariat@weecnetwork.org

LEGAL NOTICE

Privacy Policy
Cookies Policy
Facebook

Discover all the activities on our Facebook Page

Instagram

Follow our Instagram Profile!

Linkedin

Join our Linkedin world

Youtube

Join The Newsletter

Stay up to date with the latest news and trends in the digital world! Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive content, practical tips, and updates directly in your inbox.