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GRI, the UN Global Compact, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), have developed the idea of an SDG Compass following extensive consultations with companies, government agencies, universities and NGOs.  They say that the Compass explains how the SDGs will...

What's the EU ever done for us? is clearly a topical question, if not always an easy one to answer.  Here's an answer of sorts that I recently received from 'the continent' ... "Not much, apart from: providing 57% of our trade;...

Dear me!  I hear that UNESCO is planning to develop a "guiding framework on the interlinkages between the SDGs and specific ESD-related skills" so that education policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators across the world can do what they usually do with such...

In a resolution entitled “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)”, the United Nation's general assembly [GA] has reaffirmed UNESCO’s role as lead agency for the implementation of the Global Action Programme on ESD, the follow-up of the ESD Decade....

UNESCO is sidelining its flagging ESD project.  Although its website recently had this headline: Education for Sustainable Development placed firmly on the COP21 map ... it was followed by this: "The critical role of education in climate change was given the stamp...

Flush from the triumph of its first UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD, UNESCO has issued a second call for nominations for the next round (2016) where three lucky winners will receive $US 50,000.  It was awarded for the first time in November 2015 to organizations...

The February edition of SEEd's newsletter contains what it says is a case study of the sustainable schools alliance [SSA].  It begins ... "This case study is not a single initiative nor a one organisation programme. Rather is has been...

Environmentalists whom I know tend to want to claim that much of the UK's recent pro-environment legislation 'n' regulation stems from the EU rather than from our own parliaments.  I don't know enough to adjudicate on that view, but it...

AUDE, the Association for University Directors of Estates, has launched a HE Sector Sustainability Evaluating Methodology  – known colloquially as the Green Scorecard. AUDE says that the intention of the scorecard is to "improve and promote sustainability, reflecting and demonstrating progress and...

I was unaware that Google had acquired a parent company – called Alphabet.  It's a big umbrella under which Google can nestle its many current manifestations, including what it calls its moonshot projects – think driverless cars.  Happily, there's a recent...