On 17 September, the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) will co-organise the event "The Role of Higher Education in Transforming Climate Education & Environment Lifelong Learning for All". This event is part of the Transforming Education Summit, which will take place at UN headquarters in New York on 16–19 September 2022. Solutions Day on 17 September aims to mobilise support to launch or scale up initiatives connected to the Summit.
In this event participants will showcase transformative climate education and lifelong learning initiatives at all levels of education. The session will pay particular attention to the role of higher education in bridging diverse sectors and key stakeholders to implement a whole-society approach to mainstreaming climate education towards net-zero by 2050. The consolidated outputs from the session will contribute to the new UNU-IAS initiative to develop a postgraduate degree specialisation on the Paris Agreement on climate change, to be launched in 2023.
The event's objectives are to:
- initiate a high-level dialogue on a whole-society approach to climate actions towards net-zero by 2050, including school and adult education, community actions, industries, and international organisations.
- explore key factors supporting a whole-society approach by sharing relevant policy implementation, promising examples, and initiatives in the whole-society-based climate education and lifelong learning across generations from the member states and leading HEIs institutions.
- establish multi-sector partnerships aiming to enhance UNU’s new postgraduate programme to be a whole-society-driven climate education.
Participation
This event is open to attendees of the Transforming Education Summit. For details on registration, please visit the TES website.
Speakers
David Malone (Rector, UNU & Under-Secretary-General, UN)
Stefania Giannini (ADG, UNESCO)
Karma Galay (Officiating Secretary, Ministry of Education, Bhutan)
Markus Gonzalez (Undersecretary, Ministry of Universities, Spain)
Youssef Nassef (Director, Adaptation Division, UNFCCC)
Ahmed Muktar (RCE Youth Coordinator, Nigeria)
Philip Osano (Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute Africa, Kenya)
Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi (Director, UNU-IAS)
Maki Hayashikawa (Director, Education 2030, UNESCO)
