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UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development(ESD) was held virtually from 17th to 19th May 2021. It was streamlined from Berlin, Germany to mobilize support from the new global framework ESD for 2030. The Conference is organised in cooperation with and generously supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany.

On Tuesday, 2021, 18 May, SSEC Director Dr. Ditty O'Donnell was a specialist regarding the matter of "Education’s response to the challenges: good practices" during a meeting named "Technological advancement: how can education encourage technology for a sustainable future?" at the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development.

Events of the Conference

During the meeting, members have investigated what innovation is required for supportable turn of events, which job training can or should play in the period of innovation, and how to utilize the correct sort of innovation to additionally advance ESD. The UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development featured the vital part of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a key empowering agent for the effective accomplishment of every one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the COVID-19 reconstructing measure, and to make energy for reinforcing ESD in strategy and practice.

Agenda of the Conference

The Conference, coordinated by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in participation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, and with the German Commission for UNESCO as warning accomplice. It intended to:

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  upgrade mindfulness on supportable improvement challenges and the significant job of ESD as a key empowering agent for the fruitful accomplishment of all SDGs, especially considering the new worldwide advancements during the Covid-19 pandemic; and

  
  


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  make energy for the new worldwide system ESD for 2030 for the time of 2020-2030 and its guide for execution.

  
  

800 members from around the world had assembled on an online platform for the event: strategy producers working in instruction and manageable turn of events, training professionals, common society members, improving local area and private area specialists who made the conference a successful one.

Prospects of the UNESCO World Conference

The COVID-19 pandemic heartbreakingly affects human existence all throughout the planet: executing a huge number of individuals, causing worldwide financial decrease and school terminations in more than 180 nations. It has tested the constructions of our social orders and our lifestyles. This interruption likewise presents a noteworthy opportunity to upgrade our social orders and reroute from the current way. UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Education, Stefania Giannini, has called upon governments to "work back better", and change instruction to meet the environment crisis through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Agenda 2030. ESD reconsiders what we realize, where we learn and how we figure out how to guarantee we foster the information, abilities, qualities and perspectives that empower us to settle on educated choices and activities on worldwide issues like the environment emergency and the COVID-19 emergency.

Let's Sum Up

Changing figuring out how to change social orders towards sustainability?is the point of the?ESD for 2030?framework. This guide for ESD in 2020-2030 was authoritatively dispatched at the UNESCO World Conference on ESD which took place on 17-19 May 2021, in Berlin, Germany. Leading the pack up to the World Conference, UNESCO welcome you to a progression of ESD?online workshops?in?cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, and with the German Commission for UNESCO as warning accomplice. The conversations and results from the series?of online workshops?will be utilized to additionally foster the gathering project and help shape the plan in Berlin one year from now.