Winners of ESD Prize announced: News from UNESCO on Education for Sustainable Development (September 2016)

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Winners of ESD Prize 2016 announced

UNESCO's Director-General has announced the three laureates of the 2016 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): They come from Cameroon, Japan and the United Kingdom. The Prize will be awarded in a ceremony in Paris in October. More >>

Empowering women and youth in Cameroon

The Centre for Community Regeneration and Development from Cameroon gets the award for its youth-led programme "Integrated ESD schemes in schools and communities" targeting youth, women and indigenous groups. More >>

Involving an entire city in ESD

The Okayama ESD Promotion Commission receives the Prize for its systemic "Okayama ESD Project" involving very wide citizen and community engagement across a range of sectors in the entire Okayama region. More >>

Certifying universities for green action

The National Union of Students UK is honoured for its student-led "Green Impact" programme which accredits university departments for sustainability actions and already has an impact outside higher education. More >>

Fundamental change needed to achieve SDGs

The recently published Global Education Monitoring Report shows that education needs a major transformation if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be met by 2030. More >>

RESOURCES

Green Skills and Lifestyles Guidebook

Biodiversity and Lifestyles Guidebook

GEM report 2016 - Youth version

Education Podcast September 2016

GAP Clearinghouse

ESD Resource Bank

EVENTS

Climate Actors World Summit
26-28 September,
Nantes, France

Implementing the SDGs
7-9 October,
Santa Cruz, Bolivia

ESD Prize Award Ceremony
11 October,
Paris, France

Greening Education Event
19-21 October,
Karlsruhe, Germany

First Future of ESD Symposium
8-9 November,
Omori, Japan

Monitoring progress towards Target 4.7 of the SDGs

Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goal on Education specifically mentions ESD. Monitoring Target 4.7 thus contributes to measuring the global progress on ESD. More >>
The primary source of data for monitoring the target are the country reports received on the implementation of a 1974 UNESCO Recommendation. More >>

ESD initiatives honoured at Germany's first national GAP congress

More than 500 ESD stakeholders from all over Germany met in July at the first national congress for the implementation of the GAP, to share innovative practice and ideas driving the ESD agenda forward. 65 local initiatives were recognized by the German Minister of Education and the President of the German Commission for UNESCO for their exemplary work on ESD. More >>

1,000 Viet Nam schools enhance environmental threat responses

Through School Preparedness Plans based on ESD, more than 1,000 schools and local communities across Viet Nam have strengthened awareness, preparedness and resilience to combat environmental threats. The Plans are developed by Viet Nam’s Ministry of Education and Training jointly with UNESCO. More >>

Listen to Irena Fedorenko speak about her commitment to the GAP
and her ESD activities such as producing a 100 percent organic detergent.

GAP key partners met to pool efforts to scale up ESD

Scaling up ESD was the theme of the second meeting of the more than 80 member organizations of the GAP Partner Networks held in Paris in July. More >>
For the meeting, UNESCO published a comprehensive booklet presenting the profiles of all key partners. Download the profile booklet >>

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