{"id":6867,"date":"2017-01-18T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2017-01-18T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T08:28:39","slug":"new-madness-from-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/01\/18\/new-madness-from-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"New madness from UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that UNESCO, bored with having to sort out ESD's contradictions, is trying to\u00a0invent a new acronym:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ECCAR \u2013 Education for climate change awareness and resilience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is less\u00a0catchy than\u00a0a dose of flu, and about as welcome. \u00a0It all came out of COP24369 in Morocco last year\u00a0(something I confess not to have focused my mind fully on). \u00a0If you can bear it, you can read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/media-services\/single-view\/news\/unesco_advocates_central_role_for_education_in_international\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as a guide for the unwary, this is what we missed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The top feature of the day will be a high-level panel debate entitled \u201cEducation\u2014A key driver to scale-up climate action\u201d (1.15pm to 2.45pm, Pacific Room, Blue Zone), in which UNESCO\u2019s Director-General Irina Bokova, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa of Morocco, President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdallah, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training of Morocco, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Patricia Espinosa and a number of education ministers, will examine ways for education to enhance the implementation of the climate agenda and Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs, which describe greenhouse gas emissions reductions agreed under the UNFCCC). ...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if\u00a0anyone ever holds <em>low-level<\/em> panel debates? \u00a0Maybe those\u00a0are the ones I was occasionally invited to sit\u00a0on ...<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that UNESCO, bored with having to sort out ESD's contradictions, is trying to\u00a0invent a new acronym: ECCAR \u2013 Education for climate change awareness and resilience This is less\u00a0catchy than\u00a0a dose of flu, and about as welcome. \u00a0It all...<\/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-6867","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\/6867","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=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}