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Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2025: Engaging Communities to Close the Evidence Gap Year of publication: 2025 Corporate author: UN. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN. ESCAP) The SDG progress report 2025 presents the latest data and insights on progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Asia-Pacific region. While celebrating regional achievements, it also highlights persistent challenges—such as climate change, natural disasters, and critical data gaps—that risk leaving marginalized communities behind. By showcasing innovative community-level partnerships, the report explores how local efforts can help bridge the evidence gap, ensuring that progress toward the SDGs is inclusive and leaves no one behind. 
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.” Acuerdo de París Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) El Acuerdo de París es un tratado internacional sobre el cambio climático jurídicamente vinculante. Fue adoptado por 196 Partes en la COP21 en París, el 12 de diciembre de 2015 y entró en vigor el 4 de noviembre de 2016. Su objetivo es limitar el calentamiento mundial a muy por debajo de 2, preferiblemente a 1,5 grados centígrados, en comparación con los niveles preindustriales. Accord de Paris Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) L'Accord de Paris est un traité international juridiquement contraignant sur les changements climatiques. Il a été adopté par 196 Parties lors de la COP 21, la Conférence des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques à Paris, France, le 12 décembre 2015. Il est entré en vigueur le 4 novembre 2016. Son objectif primordial est de maintenir « l'augmentation de la température moyenne mondiale bien en dessous de 2°C au-dessus des niveaux préindustriels » et de poursuivre les efforts « pour limiter l'augmentation de la température à 1,5°C au-dessus des niveaux préindustriels. » ПАРИЖСКОЕ СОГЛАШЕНИЕ Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) Парижское соглашение – юридически обязательный международный договор по тематике изменения климата. Он был принят 196 Сторонами на 21-й сессии Конференции Сторон Рамочной конвенции ООН об изменении климата (КС-21 РКИК ООН) 12 декабря 2015 года в Париже. Вступление Соглашения в силу состоялось 4 ноября 2016 года. Задача Парижского соглашения – удержание прироста глобальной средней температуры намного ниже 2 градусов Цельсия сверх доиндустриальных уровней при приложении усилий в целях ограничения роста температуры до 1,5 градусов Цельсия. 巴黎协定 Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) 《巴黎协定》是一项具有法律约束力的气候变化国际条约。2015年12月12日，该协定在巴黎举行的《联合国气候变化框架公约》第二十一次缔约方会议上获得196个缔约方通过，并于2016年11月4日生效。其目标是将全球气温升幅控制在工业化前水平以上低于2℃，最好是1.5℃之内。 
Accountability in Education: Meeting Our Commitments: Global Education Monitoring Report, 2017/8 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO The second edition of the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) presents the latest evidence on global progress towards the education targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.With hundreds of millions of people still not going to school, and many not achieving minimum skills at school, it is clear education systems are off track to achieve global goals. The marginalized currently bear the most consequences but also stand to benefit the most if policy-makers pay sufficient attention to their needs. Faced with these challenges, along with tight budgets and increased emphasis on results-oriented value for money, countries are searching for solutions. Increased accountability often tops the list.The 2017/8 GEM Report shows the entire array of approaches to accountability in education. It ranges from countries unused to the concept, where violations of the right to education go unchallenged, to countries where accountability has become an end in itself instead of a means to inclusive, equitable and high-quality education and lifelong learning for all.The report emphasizes that education is a shared responsibility. While governments have primary responsibility, all actors – schools, teachers, parents, students, international organizations, private sector providers, civil society and the media – have a role in improving education systems.The report emphasizes the importance of transparency and availability of information but urges caution in how data are used. It makes the case for avoiding accountability systems with a disproportionate focus on narrowly defined results and punitive sanctions. In an era of multiple accountability tools, the report provides clear evidence on those that are working and those that are not. 
Transforming Knowledge and Research for Just and Sustainable Futures: Towards a New Social Imaginary for Higher Education (Education, Research and Foresight: Working Papers; No.33, 2024) Year of publication: 2024 Author: Leon Tikly Corporate author: UNESCO The paper considers why it is important to transform knowledge and research for just and sustainable futures and discusses the role of higher education in these transformation processes. The paper sets out how knowledge, research, and knowledge systems can be understood and critiques knowledge hierarchies that have emerged in the context of colonialism, leading to the marginalization of the knowledge systems and languages of the colonized. It is argued that there is a need to create new ecologies of knowledge that value and develop synergies between ‘all of the archives of the world’ and that can revitalize and expand the knowledge commons and contribute to more just and sustainable futures. Higher education has a pivotal role to play in the creation of new ecologies of knowledge and a revitalized knowledge commons through promoting socially and ethically engaged research, the decolonization and reorientation of university curricula and pedagogy to foster sustainable futures, and the democratization of universities to better represent historically marginalized groups. Underpinning this role must be a shift from a Western modernist social imaginary of higher education to one based on a new planetary consciousness. 
지리적 상상력으로 세계시민 되기 Year of publication: 2024 Author: 이경한 | 김다원 | 조대훈 | 이용훈 | 황태성 | 김하나 | 박정연 Corporate author: 유네스코 아시아태평양 국제이해교육원 유네스코 아시아태평양 국제이해교육원에서 기획한 『지리적 상상력으로 세계시민 되기: 세계시민과 지리 수업 안내서』가 출간되었다. 본 도서는 2022 개정 교육과정 (고등학교)에 신설된 <세계시민과 지리> 교과 및 세계시민교육 관련 수업을 구성하고 진행하는 데 활용할 수 있도록 개발되었다. GIS, 지정학, 인구, 음식, 초국적기업, 에너지, 기후위기, 국제개발협력과 같은 세계시민교육과 밀접한 여덟 가지 주제를 통해 학습자의 지리적 상상력을 자극하고 세계시민성을 함양하는 데 기여할 것으로 기대된다. 주제별로 구체적인 핵심활동과 활동지, 다채로운 참고자료를 제시하여 본 도서의 활용도를 높였다. * 본 단행본과 관련된 활동지는 유네스코 아시아태평양 국제이해교육원 홈페이지(https://www.unescoapceiu.org/post/5210)에서 다운 받으실 수 있습니다. 
Faith for Earth : a Call for Action Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Parliament of the World’s Religions today released a new book, "Faith for Earth — A Call for Action", which gives readers a wide-ranging look at the history and diversity of faith teachings and their advocacy for the protection of the environment. The online book and its print edition were launched on 8 October 2020 during the Faith for Nature Global Conference, (5th - 8th October) in Skálhol, Iceland. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the faith traditions and scientific findings that underpin the understandings and reflections of world religions concerning environmental sustainability. It includes clear statements from sacred scripts and faith leaders. It underlines that protecting the Earth, restoring ecosystems, preventing pollution, and leaving behind a healthy environment for the next generations is an ethical, moral and spiritual responsibility. With more than one hundred million houses of worship around the globe, adapting green building principles is a massive demonstration of commitment to sustainability.