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UN Promotes "Sustainability" Through Physical Education
December 07, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) describes how its Quality Physical Education program advances the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda in schools around the world by promoting "peace, inclusion and equitable development" among children.
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UN Official Supports "Sustainability" Curricula Efforts
December 07, 2016
At a recent meeting with UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova, UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson applauded UNESCO's efforts in "mobilizing the global education system of the world" to raise public awareness of the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
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UNESCO Signs Countries to Citizenship Education Agenda
December 07, 2016
Two groups operating under the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) convened officials from Uganda, Colombia, Mongolia, and Cambodia for a workshop on how to advance UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education project promoting the teaching of "sustainable development" and human rights in the classroom.
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UNESCO Pushes Climate Curricula at UN Summit
December 07, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted side events and launched publications at the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, calling on countries to include climate change education and "Education for Sustainable Development" in their national curricula to encourage students to pursue more "sustainable" lifestyles.
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UN Summit Concludes with Pledge of Climate "Rulebook"
December 06, 2016
The recent UN climate change summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, ended with governments promising to support the development of a global "rulebook" by 2018 to guide their policies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and with nongovernmental organizations warning of insufficient redistribution of "climate finance" to poor countries.
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