Highlights on DESD Progress

This regular publication highlights developments of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), which are only a small reflection of a large number of activities, events, networks and support for the DESD from countries, regions, civil society, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and stakeholders over the world.

Asia-Pacific

Worldwide

Sustainability “presents a challenge of learning how to live differently, and education is key to this.  But the issue is not just one of putting ESD into the curriculum and teaching materials, important though this is. It is also about cultivating capacities of critical understanding, careful analysis, respect for others and forward-thinking capacities, which enable people to reflect upon and change their behaviour, values and life-styles.”  

-Koichiro Matsuura, Former Director General of UNESCO