UNESCO 'ESD for 2030' Roadmap launches with series of regional events
UNESCO is organising regional online launch events of the ‘ESD for 2030’ Roadmap which provides guidance for Member States and other stakeholders for the implementation of the new global framework 'Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs' (ESD for 2030).
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) supports efforts to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to contribute to a more inclusive, just, peaceful and sustainable world. In its Resolution 72/222 in 2017, the UN General Assembly recognised ESD as “an integral element of the SDG on quality education and a key enabler of all the other SDGs” and reaffirmed UNESCO’s role as the lead agency on ESD.
To enhance the global efforts on ESD, the new framework 'Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs' (ESD for 2030) was approved by the 40th UNESCO General Conference and acknowledged by the 74th UN General Assembly in its Resolution 74/233. The new framework ESD for 2030 (2020-2030) builds on the Global Action Programme on ESD (2015 – 2019), which followed the UN Decade on ESD (2005-2014), and focuses on streamlining ESD within the 2030 Agenda to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals within the next ten years.
UNESCO has developed a Roadmap which provides guidance for Member States and other stakeholders for the implementation of ESD for 2030. With the postponement of the UNESCO World Conference on ESD from June 2020 to May 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, UNESCO is organising five regional online launch events of the ESD for 2030 roadmap for implementation as a replacement.
The five regional events will take place on:
Asia and the Pacific, 19 November from 10:00 - 11:15 CET (Register here)
Latin America and the Caribbean, 20 November from 16:00 - 17:15 CET (Register here)
Arab States region, 24 November from 15:00 - 16:15 CET (Register here)
Africa, 26 November from 14:30 - 16:15 CET (Register here)
Europe and North America, 1 December from 15:00 - 16:15 CET (Register here)
For more information about the framework for the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development, follow this link.
If you want to know more about and sign up for the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, follow this link.