The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) has launched the Sustainable Development Goal Accord.
The purpose of the SDG Accord is twofold:

~ First it is to inspire, celebrate and advance the critical role that education has in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the value it brings to governments, business and wider society.

~Secondly, the Accord is a commitment learning institutions are making to one another to do more to deliver the goals, to annually report on each signatories progress and to do so in ways which share the learning with each other both nationally and internationally. An objective is that sector SDG reporting metrics will be presented at the annual UN High Level Political Forum.

Over the last 9 months a growing number of the worlds University and student sustainability networks have collaborated to create a unifying collaborative global mechanism to help step up to the challenge and the opportunity of the SDGs.

It represents a rare and powerful opportunity for WEEC delegates to support and learn from each other and raise the profile of education in delivering the SDG’S and a sustainable future for us all.

Please check more information here.

We are thrilled to share the list of our confirmed plenary speakers. Join us during WEEC 2017 to hear these world-renowned voices.

Saturday, September 9, 15:00 – 16:30
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong
University of British Columbia, Canada

Sunday, September 10, 10:30 – 12:00
Guujaaw
Council of the Haida Nation, Canada

Sunday, September 10, 15:00 – 16:30
Prof. Wade Davis
University of British Columbia, Canada

Tuesday, September 12, 10:30 – 12:00
Elizabeth May, OC MP
Green Party of Canada, Canada

Tuesday, September 12, 15:00 – 16:30
Dr. Tara Cullis
The David Suzuki Foundation, Canada

Wednesday, September 13, 08:30 – 10:00
Dr. David Suzuki
The David Suzuki Foundation, Canada

For their full biographies, please visit the congress website.

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”.

During the Education Thematic Day at the COP 22, November 14th, the representatives of the Young Reporters for the Environment (JRE) launched a Youth Appeal. This appeal read by Aicha Oujidi JRE from Morocco and Melvin Lie Morris JRE from Kenya contains nine recommendations discussed and agreed by JREs from 11 different countries (Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Portugal, Canada, Romania, Kazakhstan and Malta), which the Foundation held on 13 and 14 November in Marrakech on the theme of reducing the ecological footprint. One of the nine recommendations was retained by YONGO, which committed to bringing it up to the UNFCCC level.

Litter Less Campaign Meeting is happening now. We are discussing goals and changes for Year 3. #LLC #NOM17 #YRE #Guimarães #FEE pic.twitter.com/O13OR4sQB1

— Young Reporters Int (@YREInt) 16 febbraio 2017

Piloted by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the Young Reporters for Environment (JRE) is present in 30 countries belonging to the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) In Morocco participated 22,000 high school students, 174 of which were prize-winners in the national competition and 24 in the international competition. These pupils were accompanied by 8300 supervisors.