Our Webwatch section continues its focus on those crucial international targets that were agreed a few months ago: the Sustainable Development Goals. Today we look at the OECD. The OECD presented its strategic action plan for the Sustainable Development Goals to ministers from member countries on the meeting in Paris last June. The action plan is divided into four…
More today on the Sustainable Development Goals. The United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe asks: What is your country doing to implement the sustainable development goals? The Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) is organized into nine geographical & thematic desks and a library. UNRIC aims to inform but also to engage Europeans in issues of global reach, and it works…
Over the next few days, our Webwatch section is focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals: those crucial international targets that were agreed a few months ago. Today’s focus is a series of maps produced by UNESCO. Read on … UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, has launched a collection of interactive maps presenting indicators…
The Beyond GDP initiative is about developing indicators that are as clear and appealing as GDP, but more inclusive of environmental and social aspects of progress. This EU website provides a range of updates on recent developments and ongoing work across a number of countries.
The Guardian has an article on the long history of fakery and deception in wildlife film making. As most now know, even the BBC is not immune from this dishonesty. Will you be watching the fake-free Planet Earth II on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday?
Tide~’s new resource “Global learning – lenses on the world‘ is now available online. It addresses questions about poverty and wealth; hunger and food; and sustainable development. It has five free downloadable sections, supported by over 80 additional downloads, and is available in both English and Spanish. The resource shares work from Tide~’s three year project ‘Young people…
WWF produced its Living Planet Index last week. Here’s the report summary. All environmental educators will find something in here of interest and importance. Moreover, there is much that will enliven teaching of all kinds.
As part of Groundwork’s Active Neighbourhoods project in Birmingham, local residents wanted to make their area in Alum Rock more useful and attractive in the form of a garden. The existing site was a simple green triangle between the junctions of several roads. After an initial site visit, Groundwork’s Landscape Designer produced a design proposal. The scheme…
The Royal Society is working in partnership with the British Council and the Commonwealth Secretariat to run a programme of activities in schools across the Commonwealth on scientific topics, linked to the Commonwealth Science Conference hosted by Singapore in June 2017. Each one is also linked to at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals. These resources…
Thanks to LEEF for alerting us to the Wildlife Gardening Forum International Conference on Wednesday 23rd November at the Natural History Museum in London. This is a ground-breaking (literally and metaphorically speaking) conference and will involve speakers from Germany, Belgium, Holland, Ireland and the UK, addressing the theme of “What European Wildlife and Nature Gardeners can learn…