{"id":3864,"date":"2013-05-22T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2013-05-22T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T08:00:19","slug":"un-general-assembly-discusses-sustainable-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/05\/22\/un-general-assembly-discusses-sustainable-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"UN General Assembly discusses sustainable development goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN general Assembly is devoting 24 days in 2013 to an open working group on sustainable development goals. \u00a0Of these just part of one day (in November) is devoted to education, with \"employment and decent work for all\", \"social protection\", and \"youth\" also being foci for that session.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this is to cover\u00a0<em>all<\/em> education (including ESD it's to be presumed, though there is no mention of that), this doesn't sound a lot, and does not look like a ringing endorsement of the importance of education (and learning) to sustainable development as both idea and practice.<\/p>\n<p>However, a cheerier view is that little time needs to be devoted to eduction, <em>per se<\/em>, in a formal session, as it is bound to crop up in <em>every<\/em> other session. \u00a0For example, how would it be possible to do justice to issues such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>health and population<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>climate change<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>disaster risk reduction<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>promoting equality<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>etc<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>... unless there were a focus on education and learning? \u00a0Indeed!<\/p>\n<p>Which of these views will prevail I wonder. \u00a0See you in New York anyway! \u00a0If you can't wait, details are <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/index.php?menu=1300\">here<\/a>, including gripping <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/meetings-events\/watch\/4th-meeting-open-working-group-on-sustainable-development-goals-general-assembly\/2229129098001\">UNTV<\/a> coverage of work so far. \u00a0Why this isn't on Channel 4 prime time every day is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN general Assembly is devoting 24 days in 2013 to an open working group on sustainable development goals. \u00a0Of these just part of one day (in November) is devoted to education, with \"employment and decent work for all\", \"social...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}