News and Updates

The UN has published a much reduced draft document for the COP21 meeting in Paris.  It is now reduced (from ~90) to 20 pages, plus 3 supplementary ones on ways to increase countries’ emissions-cutting targets before 2020. The text would commits governments...

As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation.  The first I published yesterday.  This is the second of them: a country needs survey....

As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation.  This is the first of them: an overview of environmental education [EE] issues in...

I've been invited to the next meeting of the GEEP: Global Environmental Education Partnership.  Its draft goals, objectives and strategy are to: 1: Build capacity in member countries to develop and support quality EE The objectives are to: identify and share...

It is always fascinating to read about how other countries do things.  Under the heading: EE Advocacy Summer Successes and an Invitation to Participate, the North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] says this about Environmental Education in the USA: "Environmental Education...

I wrote the other day about VW and its emissions troubles.  All is not gloom for the company, however, as it wins prizes for its Corporate Social Responsibility.  Indeed, as the Telegraph reminds us, VW is a "global leader" in CSR.  Maybe,...

Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has announced the first winners of the UNESCO-Japan Prize for outstanding projects related to ESD. They are: Asociación SERES (Guatemala and El Salvador) ~ awarded for its “SERES ESD Youth Ambassadors” initiative, which uses an...

I was in Germany when the extent of the VW emissions scandal finally became clear to us all.  Amid all that sausage, cake and beer, there was considerable reputational anxiety – and not just for car-making, though it does employ,...

According to the Telegraph the other week, the UK (that might mean Scotland) will be quids in because of all the empty(ish) oil and gas wells under the North Sea – just right (and almost ready) for the CO2 that...

There are good reasons why Housman set his poem comparing Shropshire and London in Knighton, rather than Telford, not least because the River Teme doesn't flow through the north of the county; Telford's being a new town may also have had...