UNECE Steering Committee
on Education for Sustainable Development
First Meeting
Second Meeting
Third Meeting
Fourth Meeting
Fifth Meeting
Sixth meeting
The sixth meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on ESD is scheduled to take place in Geneva from 7 to 8 April 2011. The Steering Committee’s sixth meeting is expected to consider the progress and challenges in implementing phase II of the Strategy and to discuss and adopt the work plan for phase III (2011 – 2015). Furthermore, the Steering Committee is expected to address how to promote the UNECE ESD process at the Seventh “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference in Astana and to identify interlinkages of ESD with the key themes of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.
- Official documents
- Informal documents
- Interventions and presentations
- Registration
Report of the sixth Steering Committee meeting
(advanced copy; ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/2) |
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Annotated provisional agenda for the meeting
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/1)
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Report of the eighth meeting of the Bureau
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/3) |
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Draft workplan for implementation of phase III
of the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe Strategy for Education for Sustainable
Development (2011–2015)
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/4) |
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Report on progress made by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Expert Group on Competences in Education for Sustainable Development
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/5) |
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Learning for the future: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/6)
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List of participants |
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Proposed topics for reporting on the progress in the implementation of the UNECE Strategy for ESD (Information Paper 1) |
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Overview of National Strategies and Action Plans for ESD (Information Paper 2) |
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Contributions, incurred expenses and estimated resource requirements (Information Paper 3) |
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Panel Discussion at the Sixth Steering Committee meeting: “Taking Stock and Looking Forward – ESD in the context of Rio+20”. Note by the Secretariat (Information Paper 4) |
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Discussion paper on the role of education for sustainable development in shifting to a green economy (Information Paper 5) |
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Proposal for the extension of the mandate of the Expert Group on Competences (Information Paper 6) |
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Annotated provisional agenda for the second stakeholder
coordination meeting (Information Paper 7) |
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Learning from each other: Achievements, challenges and ways forward – Second evaluation report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development (Information Paper 8) |
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Workplan for Phase III
The UNECE Strategy for ESD: 2011-2015 and beyond
Presentation by Gerald Farthing, Chair of the Steering Committee |
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National implementation reporting 2010
Second evaluation report of the implementation of the UNECE Strategy for ESD
Presentation by Arjen Wals |
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UNECE Expert Group on Educator Competences
Learning for the future: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development
Presentation by Roland Tormey |
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Panel discussion: the role of ESD in shifting to a green economy
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Sustainable Thinking
Presentation by Tatiana Shakirova, CAREC |
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Skills for Green Jobs
Presentation by Mercedes Durán-Haro, International Labour Organizationy |
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Sustainable Consumption
Presentation by Paolo Soprano, Director of Division for Sustainable Development
Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy |
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Country interventions |
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Belgium |
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Cyprus
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Denmark |
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France |
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Georgia |
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Malta
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Slovenia |
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All delegates attending the Steering Committee meeting are requested to complete the registration form and to transmit it to the UNECE secretariat preferably before 7 March 2011 and no later than 21 March 2011 by e-mail (esd@unece.org). On their way to the meeting, delegates should obtain an identification badge at the Pass and Identification Unit of the United Nations Office at Geneva’s Security and Safety Section, located at the Pregny Gate, 14, Avenue de la Paix (see map). It will be necessary to present your passport or identity card. In case of difficulty, please contact the secretariat (Ms. Elizabeth James) by telephone at +41 22 917 6307.
Practical Information for the delegates
Fifth meeting
The fifth meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on ESD took place in Geneva from 18 to 19 March 2010. The meeting focused on consideration of the two priorities identified for the current, second, phase of the Strategy implementation, the development of national strategies/action plans for ESD and of ESD competences in the education sector. It also considered preparations for the first mandatory reporting cycle under the Strategy and agreed on the timeline for the development of the work plan for the III implementation phase (2011-2015).
- Official documents
- Informal documents
- Interventions and presentations
- Registration
Annotated provisional agenda for the meeting
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2010/1) and corrigendum
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Report of the meeting
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2010/2) |
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Progress Report on the work of the Expert Group on Competences in ESD
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2010/3) |
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Addressing Sustainable Consumption, production and transportation through education for sustainable development: analysis of good practices
(ECE/AC.25/2009/4) |
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Addressing Sustainable Consumption, production and transportation through education for sustainable development: good practices
(ECE/AC.25/2009/5) |
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List of participants |
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Overview of national strategies and action plans for ESD
Information paper 1 |
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Coordination of capacity-building activities in the field of ESD
Information paper 2 |
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Addressing Sustainable Consumption through Education for Sustainable Development: Excerpt from the Report of the Fourth Meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development
Information paper 3 |
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Advancing Sustainable Consumption, Production and Transportation through Education for Sustainable Development: Proposal for a side-event at CSD-18
Information paper 4 |
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Information concerning the 2010 reporting on the implementation of the UNECE Strategy for ESD at national/State level
Information paper 5 |
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Status of the Trust Fund and Resources Requirements for the period of 2008-2010
Information paper 6 |
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Information matrix for recent, ongoing or planned activities to promote Education for Sustainable Development in the countries of the UNECE region |
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UNECE Expert Group on Competences in ESD
Prof. Michael Scoullos, Chair of the Expert Group
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All delegates attending the Steering Committee meeting are requested to complete the registration form and to transmit it to the UNECE secretariat preferably before 19 February 2010 and no later than 26 February 2010 by e-mail (esd@unece.org). On their way to the meeting, delegates should obtain an identification badge at the Pass and Identification Unit of the United Nations Office at Geneva’s Security and Safety Section, located at the Pregny Gate, 14, Avenue de la Paix (see map). In case of difficulty, please contact the secretariat (Ms. Elizabeth James) by telephone at +41 22 917 6307.
Practical Information for the delegates
Fourth meeting
The fourth meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on ESD took place in Geneva from 19 to 20 February 2009.
The main objectives of the meeting were to: (i) consider the progress by countries in the implementation of the Strategy for ESD since the last meeting of the Committee, including the state-of-art in the development and implementation of the National Action Plans for ESD; (ii) consider the progress of work of the Expert Group on Indicators for ESD, including their proposal for establishing an Expert Group on competence in ESD; (iii) consider the state-of-art in addressing the issue of sustainable consumption and production through education for sustainable development; (iv) consider the input from the UNECE region into the upcoming UNESCO World Conference on ESD; and (v)
consider the proposed mechanism to strengthen coordination of activities among ESD partners in the region.
The Bureau of the Steering Committee prepared the meeting through consultations by e-mail. For more information about the meeting please see the documents in the table below.
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Provisional agenda
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2009/1) |
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Report
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| List of participants |
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Progress Report on the work of the Expert Group on Indicators for ESD
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Reporting format
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Guidance for reporting
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Good practices in ESD
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Proposal for the establishment of an Expert Group on competences in ESD
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UNESCO World Conference on ESD: proposed contribution to the Conference Declaration
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2009/9) |
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Proposed coordination mechanism for ESD partners in the UNECE region
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2009/8) |
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Status of the trust fund and resource requirements for the period of 2009-2010
(Information paper No.4) |
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Table of Contents of the UNECE publication on ESD
(Information paper No.5) |
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Compilation of answers to the questionnaire on progress made by countries in implementing ESD
(Information paper No.1)
Annex (Israel) / Annex (Slovenia) / Annex (Uzbekistan) |
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| Questionnaire |
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Overview of National Strategies and Action Plans for ESD
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| Here and Now! Education for Sustainable Consumption. Draft Recommendations and Guidelines |
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| Interventions and presentations
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| Italy (addressing SCP through ESD) |
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| Netherlands (indicators for ESD) |
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| Serbia (NAP for ESD) |
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| UNEP (addressing SCP through ESD) |
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Third meeting
Following the extension of the mandate of the UNECE Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development at the Belgrade Ministerial Conference the third meeting of the Steering Committee took place from 31 March to 1 April 2008 in Geneva, Palais des Nations. The fifth meeting of the Bureau of the Steering Committee took place in Geneva on 7 December 2007 with a view to prepare the Steering Committee’s third meeting. For more information about the meeting please see the documents in the table below.
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- Interventions
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| Provisional agenda (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/1 and corr.1) |
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| Report (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/2) |
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| List of participants |
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| Report of the fifth meeting of the Bureau (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/3/Add.1) |
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| Work Plan of Implementation for Phase II of the UNECE Strategy for ESD (2008-2010) (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/5) |
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| Updated information related to contributions, incurred expenses and estimated resource requirements for ESD programme (Information Paper No. 4) |
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| Progress Report on the work of the Expert Group on Indicators for ESD (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/4) |
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| Revised Reporting Format (Information Paper No. 2) |
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| Draft list of descriptors (Information Paper No. 3) |
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| Proposal for mandates for activities related to Indicators for ESD and to the development of competences in ESD (Information Paper No. 1) |
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| How do teachers teach sustainable development? A panel on competence in education for sustainable development in the education sector (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/6) |
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| List of panellists |
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| Discussion paper on competence in ESD in the education sector (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2008/7) |
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| CSCT project handbook on Competencies for ESD teachers - a framework to integrate ESD in the curriculum of teacher training institutions |
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| Interventions and presentations
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| Austria |
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| Canada (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Croatia |
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| Cyprus |
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| Estonia |
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| Finland |
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| Georgia |
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| Germany |
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| Hungary |
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| Italy |
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| Italy (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Kyrgyzstan |
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| Netherlands (indicators for ESD) |
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| Poland |
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| Romania |
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| Serbia |
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| Slovakia |
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| Sweden |
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| Sweden (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Switzerland (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Turkey |
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| Uzbekistan |
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| EEA |
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| OECD |
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| BIOM (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| MIO-ECSDE |
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| Austria |
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| Canada (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Croatia |
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| Cyprus |
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| Estonia |
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| Georgia |
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| Germany |
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| Hungary |
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| Italy |
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| Italy (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Netherlands (indicators for ESD) |
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| Poland |
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| Romania |
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| Serbia |
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| Sweden |
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| Sweden (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Switzerland (panel on competence in ESD) |
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| Turkey |
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| EEA |
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| BIOM (panel on competence in ESD) |
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Second meeting
The second meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) took place on 4-5 December 2006 in Palais des Nations (Salle VII) in Geneva.
The documents for the meeting are posted on this page as soon as they become available. The
preparatory
documents for the Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" (Belgrade, 10-12 October 2007) can be found on the following web-site
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| Progress Report on the work of the Expert Group on Indicators for ESD |
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| Reporting Format |
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| Assistance programme (English only) |
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| Proposal on the segment on Education for Sustainable Development for the Sixth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" |
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Proposal submitted by the Bureau |
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Extract from the report of the second meeting of the
Ad Hoc Preparatory Working Group of Senior Officials
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| Azerbaijan |
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| Denmark |
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| Georgia |
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| Germany |
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| Israel |
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| Kyrgyzstan |
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| Latvia |
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| Netherlands (indicators for ESD) |
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| Norway |
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| Romania |
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| Serbia |
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| Earth Charter Secretariat |
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First meeting
The first meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) took place on 13-14 December 2005 in Geneva. Thirty eight UNECE member States and the European Community took part in this event as did UNESCO, OSCE, Council of Europe, UNIDO, European Environmental Agency and several academic institutions, regional environmental centers and non-governmental organizations. Establishment of this Steering Committee that includes both Ministries is a unique project, there are no similar examples in other regions.
Countries reported on their progress in implementation of the UNECE Strategy for ESD and discussed challenges that lie ahead. The Committee also heard about good practices available in different parts of the region and agreed on some mechanisms to share them to make the implementation of the Strategy as practical and effective as possible. Strengthening synergies between ESD-related activities that take place within the frameworks of the UN Decade of ESD, the UNECE Strategy for ESD and the UN Commission on SD was strongly supported.
The Committee amended and adopted its work plan that outlines activities in support of the implementation and include a reporting mechanism. It considered a rather innovative project: a set of indicators to measure the effectiveness of the implementation of ESD. The key finding was that it is important to measure the effectiveness of the implementation throughout the whole implementation process, starting from the initial measures on governance up to the visible effects in society. This last issue is, understandably, very hard to identify and measure.
The Committee discussed a possible proposal on ESD for the Belgrade Ministerial "Environment for Europe " Conference to be held in October 2007. It suggested a general plenary session that would address cooperation on ESD between Environment and Education sectors and regional cooperation for the Strategy's implementation. The session could be combined with thematic panel discussion followed by interactive debates on ESD's role in solving emerging SD-related problems.
The elected chair of the Committee, Mr. Andreas Karamanos, Secretary General of Education (Greece) and the Vice-chair, Ms. Violeta Ivanov, Chief of Environmental Policy and European Integration Division, the Republic of Moldova, met the challenge to lead the process together and give a good start for the implementation of this new cross-sectoral activity. More
The
documents for the
meeting are posted on this page as soon as they
become available.
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| Agenda |
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| draft Work Plan (adopted as amended, see the report) |
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| Progress Report on the work of the Expert Group on Indicators for ESD |
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| Answers to the Questionnarie
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| Georgia |
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| Germany |
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| Germany (intervention on indicators for ESD) |
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| Greece |
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| Ireland |
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| Israel |
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| Kyrgyzstan |
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| Kyrgyzstan (on behalf of Central Asia region) |
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| Latvia |
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| Lithuania |
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| Netherlands (indicators for ESD) |
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| Republic of Moldova |
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| Serbia and Montenegro |
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| Spain |
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| OSCE |
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| CAREC |
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| CAREC (project proposal) |
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| REC for the Caucasus |
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| COPERNICUS CAMPUS |
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| ENSI |
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