Global Education Monitoring Report

Press conference to launch ‘PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth’ by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, UNESCO

Facilitator: 

• Nick Nuttall, Spokesperson, United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Speakers:

• Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO
• Mr Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdallah, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Kingdom of Morocco
• Manos Antoninis, Senior Policy Analyst, GEM Report, UNESCO
• Tariq 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.