UNESCO Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development
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BASIC REFERENCE DOCUMENTS<br />
United Nati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong>al, Scientific and<br />
Cultural Organizati<strong>on</strong><br />
Educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Development</strong> 2014<br />
World C<strong>on</strong>ference, Aichi-Nagoya (Japan), 10-12 November<br />
Stakeholder Meetings, Okayama (Japan), 4-8 November<br />
Aichi-Nagoya Declarati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> Educati<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Development</strong><br />
We, the participants of the <str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g> World C<strong>on</strong>ference <strong>on</strong> Educati<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Development</strong> held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from 10<br />
to 12 November 2014, adopt this Declarati<strong>on</strong> and call <strong>for</strong> urgent<br />
acti<strong>on</strong> to further strengthen and scale up Educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong><br />
<strong>Development</strong> (ESD), in order to enable current generati<strong>on</strong>s to meet<br />
their needs while allowing future generati<strong>on</strong>s to meet their own, with<br />
a balanced and integrated approach regarding the ec<strong>on</strong>omic, social<br />
and envir<strong>on</strong>mental dimensi<strong>on</strong>s of sustainable development. This<br />
Declarati<strong>on</strong> recognises that people are at the centre of sustainable<br />
development and builds <strong>on</strong> the achievements of the United Nati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
(UN) Decade of ESD (2005-2014); the deliberati<strong>on</strong>s of the <str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
World C<strong>on</strong>ference <strong>on</strong> ESD in Aichi-Nagoya; and the Stakeholder<br />
Meetings held in Okayama, Japan, from 4 to 8 November 2014,<br />
namely, <str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g> ASPnet Internati<strong>on</strong>al ESD events, the <str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
ESD Youth C<strong>on</strong>ference, the <str<strong>on</strong>g>Global</str<strong>on</strong>g> Regi<strong>on</strong>al Centres of Expertise<br />
C<strong>on</strong>ference, and other relevant events and c<strong>on</strong>sultati<strong>on</strong> processes,<br />
including regi<strong>on</strong>al ministerial meetings. We express our sincere<br />
gratitude to the Government of Japan <strong>for</strong> hosting the <str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
World C<strong>on</strong>ference <strong>on</strong> ESD.<br />
1. CELEBRATING the significant achievements made by the<br />
UN Decade of ESD (2005-2014), in particular, in putting ESD<br />
higher <strong>on</strong> nati<strong>on</strong>al and internati<strong>on</strong>al agendas, advancing<br />
policy, improving the c<strong>on</strong>ceptual understanding of ESD, and<br />
generating substantive good practice am<strong>on</strong>gst a wide range of<br />
stakeholders,<br />
2. EXPRESSING our appreciati<strong>on</strong> to many governments,<br />
UN entities, n<strong>on</strong>-governmental organizati<strong>on</strong>s, all types of<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>al instituti<strong>on</strong>s and setups, educators and learners<br />
in schools, communities and workplaces, youth, the scientific<br />
community, academia and other stakeholders who have actively<br />
committed to and participated in the implementati<strong>on</strong> of the UN<br />
Decade of ESD, and to <str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>for</strong> the leadership role it has<br />
played as lead agency of the Decade,<br />
3. RECALLING the internati<strong>on</strong>al commitment to further promoting<br />
ESD that was included in the outcome document of the 2012 UN<br />
C<strong>on</strong>ference <strong>on</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Development</strong> (Rio+20), The Future<br />
We Want,<br />
4. NOTING that the <str<strong>on</strong>g>Global</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Acti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Programme</str<strong>on</strong>g> (GAP) <strong>on</strong> ESD,<br />
endorsed by the 37th sessi<strong>on</strong> of the General C<strong>on</strong>ference of<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g> as a follow up to the Decade of ESD and a c<strong>on</strong>crete<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> to the post-2015 agenda, aims at generating and<br />
scaling up ESD acti<strong>on</strong>s in all levels and areas of educati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
training and learning,<br />
5. REAFFIRMING ESD as a vital means of implementati<strong>on</strong> <strong>for</strong><br />
sustainable development, as recognised in intergovernmental<br />
agreements <strong>on</strong> climate change (Article 6 of the UN Framework<br />
C<strong>on</strong>venti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> Climate Change and its Doha work programme),<br />
biodiversity (Article 13 of the C<strong>on</strong>venti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> Biological<br />
Diversity and its work programmes and related decisi<strong>on</strong>s),<br />
disaster risk reducti<strong>on</strong> (Hyogo Framework <strong>for</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Acti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> 2005-<br />
2015), sustainable c<strong>on</strong>sumpti<strong>on</strong> and producti<strong>on</strong> (<strong>Sustainable</strong><br />
Lifestyles and Educati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Programme</str<strong>on</strong>g> of the 10-Year Framework<br />
of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Programme</str<strong>on</strong>g>s <strong>on</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> C<strong>on</strong>sumpti<strong>on</strong> and Producti<strong>on</strong><br />
2012-2021), and children’s rights (Articles 24[2], 28 and 29 of the<br />
UN C<strong>on</strong>venti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> the Rights of the Child), am<strong>on</strong>g many others,<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>UNESCO</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Global</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Acti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Programme</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> Educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Development</strong>