Earth Overshoot Day this year is the 2nd of August 2, meaning that by that day will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester.

See here the reated Infographics

You can explore solutions and alternatives in four major areas of opportunity for improving sustainability: Food, Cities, Population, and Energy here  http://www.overshootday.org/

http://www.coe.int/en/web/youth/-/training-of-trainers-in-human-rights-education-with-young-people-tothre-2017-

What will 2017 bring for sustainability and business?

In this trends briefing, you’ll find the condensed views and predictions of over ten Directors, Fellows, and Senior Associates affiliated to the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

https://cdn.www.getsmarter.com/uploads/gs_file/file_document/160/8_Sustainability_trends_driving_business_in_2017.pdf

We would like to share with you, your organization and partners the Call for Applications for the UNESCO Regional ESD Flagship Training Programme, taking place in Beirut, Lebanon from 1-3 August, 2017

We write you as the co-convenors of the UNESCO Regional ESD flagship training program, which is a three days regional workshop in which we invite you, the youth activist (18 - 35 years old), to think through the interdisciplinary concerns surrounding the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The training program, organized in collaboration with UNESCO Beirut, GAP on ESD Partner Network 4 and UNESCO Headquarters, will mainly focus on exploring the nexus between issues of social justice, environmental health, human rights and sustainability. The desired outcome is for participants to strengthen their understanding of the interconnected nature of the contemporary sustainability crisis, thus fostering a community of emerging, interdisciplinary sustainability leaders working on strategic interventions to create systemic, meaningful changes on a local, regional and global level.

This project’s objective is to empower selected youth leaders to inspire and mobilize other young people to take action towards building more sustainable and resilient communities.

UNESCO Regional ESD FLAGSHIP training program dates: 1-3^rd of August 2017

Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Application Deadline: Sunday May 21^st 2017

Travel sponsorship: The travel and accommodation expenses for selected participants will be covered by UNESCO for the duration of the workshop.

Organizers: UNESCO Beirut office, “Organisation De Development Durable” ngo (ODDD, GAP on ESD PN4)

Additional info regarding the training program details, the target audience, how to participate and the application form can be found on ODDD fB page event: link https://www.facebook.com/events/797053680449498/

The openlittermap.com is now online. 

If you would like to become an expert litter-mapping Citizen Scientist on the OpenLitterMap platform, please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0c5TIYzNI

SUMMER SCHOOL

Integrated Management Approaches and Sustainable Tourism Strategies
for Biosphere Reserves

Tepilora, Rio Posada and Montalbo future MaB UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Sant’Anna di Lodè (NU) – Tepilora Regional Parck - Sardinia, Italy,

13-20 July 2017

SCOPE

The Summer School seeks to provide a high quality training to post graduate students, young scientists and managers of Biosphere Reserves (BRs) from European countries, more specifically from South Europe and Mediterranean countries, on Integrated Management Approaches and Sustainable Tourism Strategies for Biosphere Reserves.

Additionally, the Summer School provides the participants with the opportunity to be informed about the successful procedures of preparing the dossier of the application of the proposed Biosphere Reserve (officially belonging to the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme, MAB/UNESCO).

The Summer School intents also to highlight the rich natural and cultural heritage of the “Tepilora, Rio Posada and Montalbo” MaB UNESCO future Biosphere Reserve and, generally of the island of Sardinia.

COSTS

The organisers cover the training fees and the accomodaton, however the participants should cover their travel cost. There maybe a few places left, for interested young people, wishing to know more about the management and sustainability options of a Bioshere Reserve.

REGISTRATIONS

To know more about the summer school and the registration process please read carefully the following announcement.

Deadline for registrations: 31 May 2017

View the Announcement (PDF).

View the Agenda (PDF) (v4).

Download and fill the Registration form (DOC).

GWP CEE is organising at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) on 9 - 16 July 2017 the Summer School "Water in the sustainable development – current challenges and opportunities", in co-operation with partner organisations from the region and under the patronage of UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Development and Ecological Awareness, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia.

The Summer School is open to students in existing MSc and PhD water management related programmes, especially from universities which are registered partners to GWP-CEE and GWP Mediterranean. The participants must be able to communicate fluently in English.

Financial support, covering the prize of the course and accommodation, for students from Partner universities of GWP CEE and GWP MED will be provided on first come-first served basis (travel costs have to be covered by the participants). The summer school is open also to MSc and PhD students from any other university in Europe that show an interest in enhancing IWRM knowledge and broader aspects of water security.

More information, tentative Agenda and registrations here: http://www.gwp.org/en/GWP-CEE/WE-ACT/news/2017/gwp-cee-summer-school/ and gwpcee@gwpcee.org.

Deadline for applying is 31 May 2017.

The "Topics and Learning Objectives" publication is the first pedagogical guidance from UNESCO on global citizenship education, with the aim of helping Member States integrate GCED in their formal and non-formal systems education systems.

Drawing on the UNESCO publication "Global Citizenship Education: Preparing learners for the challenges of the 21st century" and on the outcomes of three key UNESCO events on global citizenship education, organized between 2013 and 2015, this publication presents suggestions for translating global citizenship education concepts into practical and age-specific topics and learning objectives in a way that allows for adaptation to local contexts.

The manual comprises advice and suggestions for trainer's in Global Learning for their own work. It focuses on nonformal education with adults but also offers impulses for all domains of education.

The trainer’s manual “Global How?” is the result of the project “Facilitating Global Learning - Key Competences of Members from European CSOs”, which was carried out in response to the evident need for quality training for GL facilitators working in the context of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).

The title “Global How?” relates to a baseline study entitled “Global What? A Study on Facts and Needs of Global Learning in Germany, Portugal and Romania”, which was conducted at an earlier stage of the project. The manual is strongly based on the project partners’ expertise in training facilitators as well as their experience from conducting test training courses in three different European countries.

Download the publication: http://www.finep.org/files/fgl_manual_global_how_print_version.pdf