News and Updates

There is a conference [*] coming up in May in Berlin to explore the idea of a curriculum based around the sustainable development goals [SDGs]. One of the inputs [ Towards a new teaching and school culture ] will be by Margret...

That's what a chemical engineer said to me as he caught me plugging my car into the university's electric car charging point the other day.  And indeed (most of) it does.  As I write this, on a cold, sunny day...

I've long viewed the University of British Columbia as the place to emulate and learn from when it comes to an all-round approach to sustainability, albeit with a critical eye on what they've not managed to do yet. They have...

This year’s sustainability skills survey by the NUS has resulted in over 9000 responses from higher and further education institutions, and from sixth-form Colleges. The results will be available shortly, following data analysis; meanwhile, the pattern of responses has thrown up useful comparative...

I see that Earth Hour has come round again.  It's like birthdays – relentless. WWF urges us to switch off our lights on March 19th at 2030 "to show we care about our brilliant planet".  As this will be over two...

Well, that should really be: An afternoon at the University of Bath Court, but ... I went to the Court meeting, which was informative and lively.  I also went to a lecture beforehand with the title: Empowering Higher Education for a Sustainable...

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....