Tomorrow today: UNESCO Director-General promotes Education for Sustainable Development at the UN
A book launch by Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s Director-General and a round table featuring award-winning students on 4 November 2010 will follow UNESCO’s presentation of a mid-decade review of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) at the sixty-fifth session of the UN General Assembly.
“DESD: an engagement with the future” is a three-part round table starting with two secondary-school students from Michigan, U.S., (in collaboration with Discovery Education) presenting their project which won the “Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge”. A panel discussion will then present stakeholders’ views from and experiences of the first half of the DESD and priorities for the second, along with challenges for the future. Finally, Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s Director-General, will launch the book Tomorrow Today – Learning to build a sustainable future.
The DESD mid-decade review presents four main areas of action as laid out in the Strategy for the second half of DESD and the outcomes from the UNESCO World Conference on ESD (Bonn, Germany 2009), namely; enhancing synergies with educational and development initiatives; developing and strengthening capacities for ESD; building, sharing and applying ESD-related knowledge and advocating ESD and increasing awareness and understanding of the importance of sustainability.
UNESCO Strategy for the Second Half of the DESD
The UNESCO World Conference on ESD
DESD website
Tomorrow Today: the flyer