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Promoting Climate-Sensitive Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergencies Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This brief addresses a gap in climate change and education literature: young children who are affected by crises. Climate mitigation and adaptation efforts often exclude early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially in crises and emergencies. Therefore, the brief outlines multisectoral ECCE interventions that can serve as solutions to broader climate change mitigation and adaptation goals. These interventions look at long-term solutions that reduce children’s exposure to climate change risks. The aim of these long-term solutions is to create new climate-adapted ways of thinking, being, and doing by focusing on care – for each other and for the earth – and by building climate resilience among children and their supporting care systems. 
Scientific Education: New Methodologies for a Changing Society (Iberoamerican Journal of Education; vol. 87, no. 1) Year of publication: 2021 Author: F. Javier Perales | David Aguilera Corporate author: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI) A society as changing as ours needs changes (innovations) and adaptations in the educational field that allow academics to be combined with social demands. We believe that this first monograph is representative of the richness and diversity of the proposals received which, in turn, constitute a sample of the strength of the community of teachers and researchers in their desire to make science education an attractive and efficient for new generations. 
Confronting the Causes and Repercussions of Climate Change: What Role for the Moroccan School and Educational Action? Year of publication: 2016 Author: Abdulaziz Faras Corporate author: Mohammed V University. Faculty of Education An article discussing the role that the public school and environmental education should play in tackling climate change. The study indicates the importance of the number of model programs for environmental education. The article also deals with the role imposed by the Moroccan school in confronting the causes and repercussions of climate change. 
Asia-Pacific Regional Synthesis: Climate Change, Displacement and the Right to Education Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) | UNESCO Bangkok In 2020, 30.7 million people were displaced by natural disasters – disasters which the scientific community acknowledges are more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. In Asia and the Pacific alone, 21.3 million people were displaced, making it the region the most impacted by national disasters and climate change in the world. Therefore, country case studies were carried out in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Tuvalu, and Viet Nam to examine not only specific vulnerabilities to climate change and related mobility, but also the impacts of climate change on the right to education in Asia and the Pacific. These case studies show that climate change directly threatens education – through the destruction of schools and property – but also indirectly puts education in peril by forcing people to cross borders, ensuring neither legal residency nor the right to education. This regional synthesis report aims to guide policy-makers through providing operational policy recommendations on how to ensure education is protected in Asia and the Pacific in the face of climate change and displacement from a human rights-based approach. The report is one of four being developed and will contribute to the global initiative on climate change and displacement and the right to education – launched by UNESCO in 2020 – by informing the development of a Global Report with global policyrecommendations.How climate change impacts the right to education in Asia and the Pacific21.3million displacementstook place in Asia and the Pacific 
Nature-based Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Scaling Up Year of publication: 2022 Author: Charlotte Hicks | Carolina Chambi | Hemant Tripathi | Katie Dawkins | Tania Salvaterra | Kollie Tokpah | Valerie Kapos | Hashim Zaman Corporate author: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are important for the global sustainable development agenda because they offer the potential to address, in an effective way, diverse challenges such as climate change, food and water insecurity, disaster impacts, and threats to human health and wellbeing, while reducing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Some of the challenges addressed by NbS, including biodiversity loss and climate action, cannot be fully tackled without this contribution. This does not mean that other actions, such as rapid decarbonization of our economies, are not also essential. This report: Outlines recent developments on NbS, with a focus on global, regional and national commitments, and key issues and concerns Builds on the new multilaterally agreed definition of NbS – agreed by the UN Environment Assembly in March 2022 – to set out key elements in the concept, provides examples of NbS, and discusses related approaches Provides recommendations for actions by governments, civil society and the private sector to substantially scale up the use of NbSThe report aims to inform NbS-related initiatives and discussions on NbS at global, regional, and national levels, with a focus on how NbS can be scaled up to more effectively address social, economic, and environmental challenges. 
Climate Change Adaptation Policy, 10 years: Tracking Adaptation and Suggesting the Way Forward (Ⅲ) Year of publication: 2021 Author: YoungiI Song | Jiyoung Shin | Jinhan Park | Songmi Park | Mirae Kim Corporate author: Korea Environment Institute (KEI) This study suggested the direction of preparing and wrote the climate change adaptation gap report by sector. This study defined the adaptation gap as the degree of implementation compared to the adaptation goal and evaluated the effect of reducing climate change risk.This study prepared a climate change adaptation gap report through the process of selecting representative indicators, setting adaptation goals, and analyzing national climate change adaptation policies for five sectors: forest/ecosystem, agriculture and fisheries, water, health, and territory/coast.Through the writing of the climate change adaptation gap report, We identified the insufficient climate change adaptation measures and suggested the policy directions to effectively reduce climate change risk and ensure the effectiveness of future climate change adaptation policies.As a result, we emphasized the climate change adaptation efforts are needed, such as establishing climate change adaptation policies directly related to climate change risk, building the data to understand the effectiveness of climate change adaptation measures, and setting goals for climate change adaptation. 
World Heritage Forests: Carbon Sinks Under Pressure Year of publication: 2021 Author: Tales Carvalho Resende | David Gibbs | Nancy Harris | Elena Osipova Corporate author: UNESCO | International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | World Resources Institute This report provides the first global scientific assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration in forests found in UNESCO World Heritage sites.World Heritage forests, whose combined area of 69 million hectares is roughly twice the size of Germany, are some of the most biodiversity-rich habitats on Earth and play a crucial role in climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. However, these forests are under increasing anthropogenic pressures, including climate change.By combining remote sensing data with site-level monitoring, this report has quantified the climate benefits of World Heritage forests for the first time, assessed the impacts on carbon of common threats to World Heritage forests and identified sites that are net carbon sources. It therefore provides information to facilitate dialogues between policymakers and local stakeholders for the development of effective solutions aimed at maintaining the continuing role of World Heritage forests as sinks and stable carbon stores for future generations. 
SDG In the Republic of Korea: Progress Report 2023 Year of publication: 2023 Author: Woohyun Chung | Haesik Jung | Yunjae Hwang | Dawoon Jung | Hyojung Han | Dokyun Kim | Jongho Ahn | Sangyoup Lee | Soeun Ahn | Jungwook Kim | Sangyun Lee | Jiyoung Lee | Sora Yi | Jewoo Hong | Miju Kim | Junghee Cho | Kyungah Koo | Yul Kwon Corporate author: Korea R. Statistics Research Institute | Statistics Korea It has been eight years since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were adopted at the UN General Assembly, and nations began to work toward achieving them. Now we are halfway through the 2030 target period. As an authorized national focal point of SDG data, the Statistics Research Institute has been publishing a 『Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Korea: Progress Report』 annually, in keeping with their vision of providing support for ‘eviꠓdence-based decision-making’.『SDG in the Republic of Korea: Progress Report 2023』, released this, was designed as a compass identifying goals to be prioritized in policy implementation during the remaining period until 2030 to keep pace for achieving the SDGs. It is hoped that the report will help to point out the direction for policies responding to the crises and changes we are facing amid the COVID pandemic, the climate crisis, and war, through relevant indicators. 
Guidance on Integrating the Environment and Climate Change in Processes for United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks Year of publication: 2021 Author: Henrieta Martonakova Corporate author: Issue-based Coalition on Environment and Climate Change The guidance, which benefits from the diverse expertise of the 18 member organizations of the Coalition, looks at mainstreaming environmental and climate change considerations into the different stages of preparing the UNSDCF: The roadmap for a new cooperation frameworkThe common country analysisThe cooperation framework designThe cooperation framework implementationCooperation framework monitoring and evaluation The guidance looks deeper into mainstreaming the environment and climate change into a series of development priorities: human rights, including children’s rights and the rights of women; economic and trade development, including innovations, SMEs and decent work; food security and agriculture; infrastructure and sustainable use of resources, including energy, water and waste management; quality education; good health; good governance; and disaster reduction and conflict prevention. 
Getting Every School Climate-ready: How Countries are Integrating Climate Change Issues in Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO This document summarizes the findings of selected studies by UNESCO and its partners on how climate change issues are integrated in education.These findings shed light on four key questions: where do we stand on climate change education; what do teachers say; what are the examples of country good practices on climate change education; and what does inter-ministerial collaboration on education for sustainable development look like?