The United Nations Decade for Sustainable Development (2004-2014), for which UNESCO is the lead coordinator, seeks to integrate the values, principles, and practices of ESD into all aspects of education and learning in order to address the social, cultural and environmental challenges we face today.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Education for Sustainable Development

Its contents have been designed as part of the activities for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Education materials from UNESCO and partner organisations

The celebration of the International Year of Chemistry should be understood in the context of United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

UNESCO: Message by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova

This country made the proposal to launch a United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002.

UNESCO: THEMES

The SKN MAB will support of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD 2005-2014) led by UNESCO and in which BR plays an active role as learning sites and platforms for the DESD.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Japan made the proposal to launch a United Nations Decade devoted to Education for Sustainable Development at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Through its Water for Life Decade (2005-2015), the United Nations is working to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and to put a stop to the unsustainable exploitation of water resources.

UNESCO: Water Policy and Science