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I missed the launch of Measuring Up – UKSSD's report into how well the UK is implementing the sustainable development goals.  There's more detail here, and I hope that government will see the report as useful in helping in what it is doing...

An email last week from David Terry, editor of the valuable BEACONS Guides to Climate Change in which he discusses the sadly little known Eunice Foote, who was the first to discover greenhouse gases. The book that Paul Vare and I wrote recently:...

Did you know DfID had an education policy?  You'll find it here. It includes this: DFID’s new education policy calls for a united effort by global and national leaders to address the learning crisis and ensure poor and marginalised children...

Here's a link to the first part of a new paper by Morgan Phillips, the UK Co-Director of The Glacier Trust which was founded in 2008 to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the upland communities of Nepal.  Part 2 is...

Further browsing of UNESCO's Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development  [A. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (ends)] reveals this on p. 225 Monitoring on the basis of the 1974 Recommendation  The Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and...

I reckon that anyone interested in sustainability needs to be interested (in that academic, enquiring sense) in war.  After all, war is something humans are quite good at and seem to like.  We have certainly been indulging in it for...

I've now had time to read UNESCO's Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development  [A. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (eds)].   Chapter 10, Monitoring ESD: lessons learned and ways forward by Ashley Stepney Lockhart (pps. 215 – 232) stood out for me, particularly...

Somewhat to my surprise, I found myself contributing an article to the UK United Nation's Association [UNA-UK] publication on the SDGs.  Here's what I sent them: Education as the key to everything In 2015, the United Nations resolved: [1] “…...

Slightly ahead of schedule, the Vare & Scott book, The World We'll Leave Behind has published.  We are both pleased with it, whatever others might come to think.  You'll find details here along with a Routledge conversation about it –...

The report on the St George's House consultation on the SDGs contains three sets of challenges, and I wrote about the ones to government the other day.  I was somewhat sceptical as to whether anyone would take any notice. But...