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Paris Agreement Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016.Its overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” 
World Youth Report: Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) The World Youth Report on “Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), examines the mutually supportive roles of the new agenda and current youth development efforts. The report provides insight into the role of young people in sustainable development in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related frameworks, in particular, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the World Programme of Action for Youth.The Report considers the role the 2030 Agenda can play in enhancing youth development efforts and examines how evidence-based youth policies can help accelerate youth-related objectives. It explores the critical role young people have in the implementation of sustainable development efforts at all levels. 
Understanding the Challenge of Finite Resources: Seeing The Bigger Picture - Lesson 3 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World’s Largest Lesson is a collaborative education project to support the announcement of the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Learning outcomes of the project: • To understand and the urgent challenge that finite resources pose to our current economic system • To explore economic history since the industrial revolution through personal narrative • To critically evaluate our current consumption and production systems and explore better ways of dealing with resources. 
Designing for a Circular Economy: Seeing The Bigger Picture - Lesson 4 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World’s Largest Lesson is a collaborative education project to support the announcement of the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Learning outcomes of the project: • To learn about companies that have adopted the circular economy framework • To design a product or service based on the circular economy 
Exploring the Circular Economy: Seeing The Bigger Picture - Lesson 2 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World’s Largest Lesson is a collaborative education project to support the announcement of the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Learning outcomes of the project: • to compare living systems with man-made systems • to critique our materials economy • to begin to investigate an alternative model: the circular economy 
Children on the Move Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World’s Largest Lesson is a collaborative education project to support the announcement of the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Learning outcomes of the project: • Build an understanding of what life is like for people forced to flee their homes • Understand that migration has and continues to affect everyone 
The Circular Economy and Modern Agriculture: Seeing The Bigger Picture - Lesson 5 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World’s Largest Lesson is a collaborative education project to support the announcement of the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Learning outcomes of the project: • To understand the challenges around conventional monocultures and soil quality • To explore the importance of seeing the whole system when designing solutions • To critically evaluate the challenges in modern agriculture and securing food supply for the future 
Making Every Woman and Girl Count in Europe and Central Asia Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) The Women Count newsletter provides the latest updates on improving gender data production and use in the region. It highlights the programme's achievements, including key events, new publications and inspiring stories that underscore the importance of gender data in shaping policies and programs to promote gender equality and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 
Snapshot Report: SDGs in the UNECE Region Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) This document provides a brief snapshot of some aspects of SDG performance in the UNECE region. It covers the SDGs that will be discussed at the 2019 Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE region but it does not attempt to provide an exhaustive assessment. It only uses the available information in the UN SDG Global Database and the sources referenced there to illustrate a selected number of SDG issues. In a very few cases, when no data is available from this database and associated sources, information from other international organizations is used to provide some context to the discussions. 
All In: Towards Tangible Solutions for Equity and Inclusion in Education Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) All In: Towards Tangible Solutions for Equity and Inclusion in Education showcases promising practices that were successfully implemented to ensure that inclusive education really does include all children, so that the most marginalized learners – including children with disabilities, children who are out of school, children living in poverty, marginalized girls, and refugee children – have access to quality education. While many of the promising practices were initiated in response to the COVID-19 crisis, or draw upon the pandemic experience, they go beyond the immediate focus of pre- or post-COVID-19 education systems to an overall view of child well-being and the need to focus on skills for the 21st century. Many of these practices have the potential to be applied more widely within education systems and can be adapted and replicated by stakeholders in any context where innovative and inclusive approaches are needed to protect and promote children’s right to education. Ingenuity, flexibility and a commitment to true inclusion and forward-looking policies are the common thread of promising practices in this document. This publication is a complementary resource to the 2021 report: Reimagining Girls’ Education: Solutions to Keep Girls Learning in Emergencies.