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UNESCO Women for Ethical AI: Outlook Study on Artificial Intelligence and Gender Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO The gender chapter of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI is a concrete commitment by 194 Member States to advance gender equality in the AI ecosystem. To track progress in the implementation of the gender provisions of UNESCO’s Recommendation, and to assess the impacts of AI on gender equality, the UNESCO Women for Ethical AI (W4EAI) Platform has been established. This report advances the workstream through evidence-based insights in three critical areas: women’s participation in AI development and deployment, the inclusion of gender equality concerns in AI governance and the impact of AI on gender equality. It highlights the significant underrepresentation of women in AI, the lack of gender-disaggregated data, and the compounded challenges women face in the field. The report also addresses the neglect of gender dimensions in AI policy, the risks posed by AI systems to women, and the need for responsible and ethical AI governance to promote gender equality. Finally, it outlines actionable recommendations to enhance gender equality through and in AI, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive data collection, targeted interventions, and inclusive policy-making. 
Fostering Women's Leadership Year of publication: 2024 Author: Mariagrazia Squicciarini | Anna Rita Manca | Garance Sarlat Corporate author: UNESCO No (leadership) share no gain (for societies and economies)! Leveraging UNESCO’s unique Gender-Based Resilience Framework, this report explores the role of women in leadership positions in both decision-making and high-tech, including in artificial intelligence-related innovations. It further highlights progress towards the G20 Brisbane Target, aimed to accelerate progress on gender equality by reducing the gender gap in labour market participation rates by 25% by 2025. Women remain underrepresented in decision-making, holding only about 26% of seats in national parliaments worldwide on average. In the world of work, female labour participation continues to lag behind men’s, at 47% for women against 72% for men on average. Despite progress by G20 members towards the Brisbane Target, a 2% average gap in absolute terms remained to be filled in 2022. In the high-tech world, women make up only 30% of AI professionals, and even less of leaders. Female inventors in AI account for about 37% of patents filed in 2022-23. 
Green School Quality Standard: Greening Every Learning Environment Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO Climate change threatens our planet and future. Schools and other learning institutions are central places for accelerating climate action among learners and local communities. By empowering teachers and students to understand climate change in their own context contribute to making societies more sustainable and climate resilient. This publication provides for the first time ever a quality standard for greening schools and other learning environments. It outlines four core areas for integrating sustainability principles and climate action: 1) school governance, 2) facilities and operation, 3) teaching and learning, and 4) community engagement. Through the Greening Education Partnership, this standard establishes a common language for all stakeholders to jointly reach the global target of greening at least 50% of schools in all countries by 2030. Policy-makers and ministries in charge of education accreditation schemes, as well as educators, learners and communities are encouraged to use the green school quality standard and join the climate-ready school movement to ensure that every learner is equipped to address climate challenges. Normes de qualité des écoles vertes: pour des cadres d’apprentissage verts Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO Le changement climatique menace notre planète et notre avenir. Les écoles et autres institutions d'apprentissage sont des lieux centraux pour accélérer l'action climatique parmi les apprenants et les communautés locales. En donnant aux enseignants et aux élèves les moyens de comprendre le changement climatique dans leur propre contexte, ils contribuent à rendre les sociétés plus durables et plus résilientes face au climat. Cette publication fournit pour la première fois une norme de qualité pour la « vérdisation » des écoles et autres environnements d'apprentissage. Elle présente quatre domaines clés pour intégrer les principes de durabilité et l'action climatique : 1) la gouvernance scolaire, 2) les infrastructures et l'exploitation, 3) l'enseignement et l'apprentissage, et 4) l'engagement communautaire. Grâce au Partenariat pour une éducation verte, cette norme établit un langage commun pour tous les acteurs afin d'atteindre ensemble l'objectif mondial de verdir au moins 50 % des écoles dans tous les pays d'ici 2030. Les décideurs politiques et les ministères responsables des schémas d'accréditation éducatifs, ainsi que les éducateurs, les apprenants et les communautés, sont encouragés à utiliser la norme de qualité des écoles vertes et à rejoindre le mouvement des écoles prêtes pour le climat, afin de garantir que chaque apprenant soit équipé pour relever les défis climatiques. 
Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO | International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) The report highlights the crucial role of engineering in achieving each of the 17 SDGs. It shows how equal opportunities for all is key to ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced profession that can better respond to the shortage of engineers for implementing the SDGs. It provides a snapshot of the engineering innovations that are shaping our world, especially emerging technologies such as big data and AI, which are crucial for addressing the pressing challenges facing humankind and the planet. It analyses the transformation of engineering education and capacity-building at the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that will enable engineers to tackle the challenges ahead. It highlights the global effort needed to address the specific regional disparities, while summarizing the trends of engineering across the different regions of the world.By presenting case studies and approaches, as well as possible solutions, the report reveals why engineering is crucial for sustainable development and why the role of engineers is vital in addressing basic human needs such as alleviating poverty, supplying clean water and energy, responding to natural disasters, constructing resilient infrastructure, and bridging the development divide, among many other actions, leaving no one behind.It is hoped that the report will serve as a reference for governments, engineering organizations, academia and educational institutions, and industry to forge global partnerships and catalyse collaboration in engineering so as to deliver on the SDGs. 工程—支持可持续发展 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO | International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) 报告强调了工程在实现17项可持续发展目标中的关键作用。它表明，人人机会均等是确保一个包容性和性别均衡的职业的关键，能够更好地应对实施可持续发展目标的工程师短缺的问题。它提供了塑造我们世界的工程创新的快照，特别是大数据和人工智能等新兴技术，这些技术对于解决人类和地球面临的紧迫挑战至关重要。它分析了第四次工业革命初期工程教育和能力建设的转变，这将使工程师能够应对未来的挑战。它强调了解决具体地区差异所需的全球努力，同时总结了世界不同地区的工程趋势。通过介绍案例研究和方法以及可能的解决办法，报告揭示了为什么工程对可持续发展至关重要，以及为什么工程师的作用对解决人类的基本需求至关重要，例如减轻贫困、提供清洁水和能源、应对自然灾害，在许多其他行动中，建设有弹性的基础设施和弥合发展鸿沟，不让任何人掉队。希望该报告能为各国政府、工程组织、学术界和教育机构以及工业界建立全球伙伴关系和促进工程领域的合作提供参考，以实现可持续发展目标。 
The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific: The Pacific Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | UNESCO Bangkok | UNESCO Jakarta Global climate targets and the call to action from the Pacific must be heeded while major environmental, societal and economical progress is needed in the region. Leadership from Pacific Island Countries and Territories needs to be supported with action and resourcing to meet both global net zero goals and regional SDGs. This volume applies the water, energy, and food security nexus approach solely in a Pacific context for the first time, bringing together the region’s 17 countries and 7 Territories. This approach improves the security of each sector and supports regional climate and environmental priorities. Effective intersectoral solutions exist with connectivity between the water-food and water-energy sectors of particular benefit. Traditional knowledge and crop production have historically and will continue to play a major role in food security and water resources management in the region. Increased energy demand needs to be met with increased renewables installation as well as new technologies that encompass storage and transport considerations. 
Seeds of Hope Year of publication: 2020 Author: Aarya Chavda Corporate author: UNESCO At an age of 10, author and illustrator of her 3 books, Aarya Chavda extends her support by donating her art proceeds to fundraise for the welfare of underpriviledge Cancer patients.Through her campaign on 'Preservation of Cultural Heritage', She also demonstrates her commitment and contributes in spreading awareness through her programs at government and private institutions.In this series of narrative illustrations, she portrays that climate change will not occur at some point in the distance future - "It is happening her and now". She urges everyone to treasure this thought of saving our planet for the future generation. 
Empowering Learners and Teachers for Climate Action Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Climate change is impacting every aspect of life around the world and posing a growing threat to people and their livelihoods. It is critical to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours to effectively address the climate crisis. Globally, there remain significant gaps in how climate change education and sustainability are taught in classrooms. Getting every learner climate-ready requires a holistic approach that involves adapting curricula, training teachers, rethinking schools and empowering communities. As part of its ongoing work on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and its role as secretariat to the Greening Education Partnership, UNESCO is currently developing a Green School Quality Standard and Greening Curriculum Guidance to mainstream climate education in schools and educational institutions. 
الإرشادات التوجيهية لتخضير مناهج التعليم والتعلّم من أجل العمل المناخيّ Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO This Guidance responds to the calls from young people for a holistic approach to climate change and sustainability in the curriculum. It outlines a common language on how quality climate change and sustainability can be reflected in the curriculum by setting expected learning outcomes per age group (from 5-year olds and up to 18+ age group, including a lifelong learning approach).This is crucial for accelerating country-level action and ensuring joint monitoring of progress. The objective is to have 90 per cent of all countries include climate change in their curricula by 2030, as established by the Greening Education Partnership.This Guidance aims to support countries, schools or individual practitioners in reassessing their ongoing practices to adopt a more action-oriented, holistic, scientifically accurate, justice-driven and lifelong learning approach to climate change.