Commonwealth Climate Change Communication Conference (C5) – – – ON-LINE! – –

Rationale

Climate change is and will continue to be one of the central issues in the world´s agenda. The 15th Conference of Parties (COP 15) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Copenhagen in December 2009 has reiterated how much still needs to be done in order to tackle the various challenges climate change -and its various ramifications- pose to mankind.

Across the Commonwealth, the latest meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of State (CHOGM 2009) in Trinidad and the commitment expressed in the “Port of Spain Climate Change Consensus” to help Commonwealth States to face the challenges of climate change are some of the concrete signs that climate issues are taken very seriously by Commonwealth countries, which now actively search for ways to cope with the various challenges it poses.

Partners of the “Commonwealth Climate Change Communication Conference”

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD)

In December 2002, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted resolution 57/254 to put in place a United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), spanning from 2005 to 2014, and designated UNESCO to lead the Decade. During this decade, education for sustainable development will contribute to preparing citizens better prepared to face the challenges of the present and the future, and decision-makers who will act responsibly to create a viable world. ESD supports five fundamental types of learning to provide quality education and foster sustainable human development – learning to know, learning to be, learning to live together, learning to do and learning to transform oneself and society. (www.unesco.org/education/desd --- This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )