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Sixth meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development

07 - 08 April 2011
Geneva Switzerland

The sixth meeting of the UNECE Steering Committee on ESD took 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

Document Title ENG FRE RUS

Annotated provisional agenda for the meeting
(ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/1)

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Report of the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development on its sixth meeting (ECE/CEP/AC.13/2011/2) 		 PDF PDF PDF

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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Informal Documents

Document Title   ENG FRE RUS

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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Interventions and Presentations

Document Title   ENG FRE RUS

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

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 intervention
Belgium   ENG    
Cyprus   ENG    
Denmark   ENG    
France   ENG    
Georgia   ENG    
Malta   ENG    
Slovenia   ENG