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Press conference to launch ‘PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth’ by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, UNESCOFacilitator: Nick Nuttall, Spokesperson, United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Speakers:Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCOMr Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdallah, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Kingdom of MoroccoManos Antoninis, Senior Policy Analyst, GEM Report, UNESCOTariq Al Olaimy, National Coordinator for the Arab Youth Climate Movement The press conference will launch a new publication at the COP 22 by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report called: PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth. This publication is taken from the full 2016 GEM Report, Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all. It shows how education can help shift people’s behaviour to a more sustainable way of living. Curricula could better support this change: while in the majority of countries, education is the best indicator of climate change awareness, curricula in half the countries of the world fail to contain clear mention of climate change or environmental sustainability.PLANET shows that lifelong learning in the workplace and in communities has a crucial role to play in changing attitudes and finding new solutions to environmental problems as many of today’s adults were educated before climate change became an issue.

The first working group session of the multilateral assessment (MA) under the second round of the international assessment and review process (IAR) was organized under the Subsidiary Body of Implementation at this 45th session. 13 Annex I Parties and was assessed in the following order:Sweden (Presentation)Switzerland (Presentation)United Kingdom (Presentation)These Parties completed the technical review of their second biennial reports and a question and answer period of three months as part of the IAR process. The compilation of questions and answers has been made available on the respective Party page on the UNFCCC web site. The assessment of the Parties during the working group session under the SBI 45 was followed by a Party summary. More detailed information on the MA process can be found here.