Countries acknowledged the importance of ESD in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
Kartikeya Sarabhai reminded participants that ESD concerned the whole community, and not just schools.
Jeffrey Sachs congratulated UNESCO on its leadership in education in general and in ESD in particular.
What are partnerships or mechanisms of public-private funding for sustainability to support ESD research?
The rationale is that ESD concerns everyone and we should try to reach out to other sectors.
This will assist to further build and connect the many on-going ESD activities already underway in Tonga.
Reviewing the implementation of the Decade will lead to the development of strategies for ESD activities after 2014.
The student panelists said that ESD made their education exciting, dynamic and relevant.
All in all, around 70 countries have explicitly supported ESD and 71 have established a national ESD coordination body.
Other proposals include the development of a Tongan Language glossary for ESD and also ongoing mapping of ESD activities in-country.
Key themes for focusing ESD efforts in Tonga were agreed as Tongan language and culture, healthy lifestyles and sustainable livelihoods.
China has designated 1, 000 schools as experimental schools for ESD and included ESD into the National Outline for Education Reform.
The event was successful in bringing together more than 250 participants to actively discuss about ESD and Bilingual Education in Cambodia.
Japan has integrated ESD into national curriculum guidelines (the Courses of Study) and the Basic Plan for the Promotion of Education.
He also highlighted the importance of having an enabling ESD curriculum framework and encouraging teachers to be the facilitators of the learning process.
Based on its decades of experience in growth and development, Samsung will also provide its technical expertise and know-how for developing materials on ESD.
It will also address how ESD can help move Sustainable Development policy and action forward to meet different global, regional, national, and local needs.
Other UN agencies are increasingly taking up the cause of ESD as a means to face challenges to sustainable development, such as climate change.
The project, coordinated by Sazani Associates, has been included as an ESD success story for its focus capacity building both inside and outside the classroom.
Member States and other stakeholders are invited to respond to the questionnaire by 31 March 2013 and have their say on the future of ESD.
It is an open document that is adaptable for revision according to the changing needs of stakeholders and emerging issues throughout the Decade of ESD.
Under the leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), a Regional Strategy was prepared to facilitate the introduction and promotion of ESD.
Building on the Bonn Declaration from 2009, the Conference will draw out the relevance of ESD to all efforts to improve the quality of education.
The regional consultations contribute to ensuring a transparent, participatory preparation of the post-2014 ESD programme framework through collecting input from relevant stakeholders from all regions.
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Despite these success stories, ESD is far from being universally adopted.
To collect ideas and help develop a new ESD programme framework as a follow-up to the UN Decade of ESD, UNESCO has launched an online questionnaire.
The Hon Minister provided an overview of how ESD has developed in the Pacific and some of the key work that has been undertaken in Tonga.
It not only places ESD high on the political agenda, but is also the driving force for creating structures and provisions for ESD in the region.
This is a clear example of the contribution ESD makes to social justice: education for sustainable development builds bridges between people of different backgrounds and religions.
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