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Review of contexts and structures for education for sustainable development 2009: key findings & ways forward Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO This document suggests key findings and ways forward in review of the contexts and strctures of education for sustainable development. Integrating education for sustainable development & education for international understanding: conceptual issues and pedagogical principles for teacher education to address sustainability Year of publication: 2006 Author: Swee-Hin Toh Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok It is in this spirit that this essay seeks to “integrate” two active and expanding fields of 2 educational innovation and transformation worldwide, namely ESD (education for sustainable development or sustainability) and EIU (education for international understanding). The key conceptual issues and themes of both of these movements will be clarified and shared values and understandings highlighted. It will also be argued that both ESD and EIU , in order to effectively fulfill their goals of building a peaceful, just and sustainable world order, rests on some key common pedagogical principles and processes. Another introductory caveat is also essential here, namely the question of paradigm. Among policy-makers, theorists and practitioners, there may well be and often are distinct differences in conceptualization according to their paradigmatic interpretations, with consequently alternative implications for policies and practices. Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Ministerial Breakfast Meeting: Scaling up Action on Education for Sustainable Development; UNESCO, 8 November 2013 Year of publication: 2013 Author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) This address was given by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Ministerial Breakfast Meeting "Scaling up Action on Education for Sustainable Development." Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Opening of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development; Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, 10 November 2014 Year of publication: 2014 Author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) This address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO was presented on the occasion of the Opening of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. Education for sustainable development; good practices in addressing biodiversity Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO To support the growing interest in biodiversity issues and ESD, UNESCO is publishing this volume containing 24 examples of programmes addressing biodiversity in ESD settings and practices. These good practices and shared experiences, which were provided by a range of different stakeholders, are concrete examples of successful implementation of ESD in different fields and sectors, from the political to the school level, and including formal, non-formal and informal learning situations. UN decade of education for sustainable development: success stories Year of publication: 2011 Corporate author: UNESCO The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014) is a global initiative led by UNESCO. It aims at reorienting education worldwide: everyone should have the opportunity to acquire the values, competencies, skills and knowledge that are needed to contribute to sustainable development. This document includes some achievements of the UN DESD. Learning to live with risk: disaster risk reduction to encourage education for sustainable development: concept note Year of publication: 2009 Author: Ria Hidajat Corporate author: International Strategy for Disaster Reduction | German Committee for Disaster Reduction In this paper the German Committee for Disaster Reduction and the UN ISDR Thematic Platform on Knowledge and Education introduced their reflection on linking Education for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Management. It is aimed in particular at the participants of the World Conference of Education for Sustainable Development and other stakeholders engaged in promoting Education, Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction at all levels. The paper elucidates how Disaster Risk Reduction supports Education for Sustainable Development or even shows that Disaster Risk Reduction is imperative for Sustainable Development. Disaster Risk Reduction is about preventing disasters caused by natural events, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, storms or volcanic eruptions. Hazards are part of nature but can turn into disasters as a result of human interactions. Disasters are among the biggest obstacles to achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction. Education for sustainable development and the millennium development goals Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a universal framework for development, agreed to by all UN Member States in 2000. They provide a means for developing countries and development partners to work together in pursuit of a sustainable future. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can contribute to the achievement of all the MDGs. It can help governments and development partners to ensure that capacity exists for achieving the MDGs. ESD provides learning goals that help to achieve the MDGs. Tales of hope: grassroots activities of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Asia and the Pacific Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) This publication is a compilation of the keynote speeches, case presentations, and reports of the field visits conducted during the abovementioned seminar. Chapter Ⅰ presents two highly suggestive keynote speeches, describing the current challenges of “Sustainable Development” and “Education.” The case presentations in Chapter Ⅱ illustrate grassroots activities, well exemplifying ESD, which had been implemented even before the launch of UNDESD, to be followed by commentaries from ESD perspectives. Chapter Ⅲ is dedicated to describing, as an innovative approach to ESD, the “Asaza Project,” a strategy for establishing a sustainable society in the Lake Kasumigaura catchment basin in Japan. 
Status of water education in the context of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014) Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: International Hydrological Programme (IHP) This document reports on the thematic programme “Education for Sustainable Water Management” of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), which is to be implemented under the leadership of UNESCO-IHP. As a follow-up to 166 EX/Decision 3.6.1 of the Executive Board of UNESCO and Resolution XVII-12 of the Intergovernmental Council of IHP, an intersectoral Working Group on Water Education was constituted and is operational. The Working Group developed a draft Work Plan, which is presented in Annex V for the endorsement of the Bureau.