The UNESCO Office in Santiago, in its capacity as regional secretariat of ESDNet2030, will organize the official launch of the Greening Education Partnership (GEP) materials for dissemination in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Greening Education Partnership is a global initiative that takes a whole-of-system approach to support countries to tackle the climate crisis by harnessing the critical role of education. It was launched following the 2022 UN Secretary-General’s Transforming Education Summit.
This Partnership aims to deliver strong, coordinated and comprehensive action that will prepare every learner to acquire the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes to tackle climate change and to promote sustainable development.
GEP is structured around four key pillars of transformative education: greening schools standards, greening every curriculum, greening teacher training and education system capacities, and greening communities.
This launch event will focus on the materials from the first two pillars, published in 2024:
- Green school quality standard Greening every learning environment
- Greening curriculum guidance: teaching and learning for climate action
When
Wednesday 3 December
12:00 noon (Santiago, Chile); 10:00am (Jamaica)
Agenda
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Welcome remarks |
| 12:10 – 12:25 | Presentation: What is the Greening Education Partnership? Introduction to the global guidelines for green school standards and curriculum guidance. |
| 12:25 – 13:10 | Regional experiences implementing the greening education partnership materials. |
| 13:10 – 13:25 | Questions from the audience. |
| 13:25 – 13:30 | Closing |
Panelists
- Bernardo Pereyra and Katerina Ananiadou. UNESCO Paris (France)
- Yeinson Fernando Cerquera Mojoco. Education Department of Bogota Local Government (Colombia)
- Adonis Yassir Matute Valle, Ministry of Education (Honduras)
- Alicia Jiménez Elizondo, Director of Programmes, Earth Charter Center for ESD (Costa Rica)
- Carla Sabatini, Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina)
- Moderator: Cristian Bravo, Associate Programme Coordinator. Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile.
