| Summary: |
The Conference will be a forum is to show that Education works,
to make it a part of decision-making, and scale it up. It will be
a platform for sharing of practices and learnings; exchange of ideas
and information on ongoing and planned initiatives in the field of
Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) the world over. The Conference will highlight partnerships between
the two fields, discuss the role of EE as a Champion of ESD and deliberate
on partnerships with several other disciplines / organizations.
The Conference will bring together participants from all over the
world which include educators from the field of environment, health,
water and sanitation, human rights, gender, peace, citizenship,
social justice and others, civil society /NGOs, corporates, academics,
and media, government officials and representatives of UN agencies.
Working Session Themes have been developed based on DESD perspectives
and will be crosscutting. |
