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Greenpeace in bed with climate sceptics – how did it come to this?
When your guiding principle is that your enemy's enemy will have to be your friend, you run all sorts of risks. You've only got to examine American Cold War policy about supporting dictatorships and terrorists to see that, not to mention the...
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Aichi-Nagoya 9 – Finally: a Testament of Youth
My last word on the ESDFest. Sadly, this has not been written by Vera Brittain. It is a Youth Statement that was adopted at the UNESCO ESD Youth Conference in Okayama, Japan, on 7 November, to provide "a vision, commitment, and recommendations from...
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Aichi-Nagoya 8 – Daily Mail update
As promised, I've been following the UNESCO ESDFest on the Daily Mail – well, MailOnline. Here, after a quite harrowing search, are the top headings for 'ESD' so far: The obstacle to treating China's contaminated soil is finding someone to pay...
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Aichi-Nagoya 7 – Mind that GAP
UNESCO's Global Action Programme [ GAP ] replaces the DESD on the 1st January 2015 and is intended as "a concrete, tangible contribution to the post-2015 agenda." Its objectives are to ... reorient education and learning so that everyone has...
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Aichi-Nagoya 6 – The Future we've all been waiting for
Shaping the Future We We Want, the UN DESD Final Report is here. The report says: "A solid foundation has been laid for ESD at the end of the DESD, achieved by raising awareness, influencing policies and generating significant numbers of...
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Aichi-Nagoya 5 – UNESCO promotes environmental education
If you read the official UNESCO account of the opening of the ESDFest in Aichi-Nagoya, you cannot but help be struck by how much the environment features. Here's the Crown Prince of Japan: "On our earth today, along with economic growth...
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Aichi-Nagoya 4 – the Catchphrase that isn't
To help prepare for the UNESCO ESDFest, there was a catchphrase and logo competition with the aim of helping people easily understand the concept of ESD. The winning catchphrase entry was from Noriko Kawamura, an elementary school teacher in Toyota City....
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Aichi-Nagoya 3 – Opening gambits
I hear via social media that the opening morning of the Aichi-Nagoya ESDFest was a gas, and rather surreal in places, with dancing girls, drums, violins, a crown prince, a real princess, and a video from Ban Ki Moon. It...
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Aichi-Nagoya 2 – Letter to the Editors
Steve Martin and I have sent this to the THE, the Guardian, the Indy, and the TES, noting, with disapproval, the absence of any governmental representation at the ESDFest in Japan. Dear Sir, Education and Sustainable Development – The UK...
