Welcome to the York UNESCO Chair March 2024 Newsletter! With the Global SDG Action & Awareness Week as well as the national SDG Week Canada on 4-8 March 2024, many universities and other education institutions will showcase achievements and discuss opportunities for new and renewed SDG action. Check out the calendar for events near you […]
Welcome to the February 2024 newsletter! We hope 2024 has begun on a positive note for you and we wish all the best to those who will be celebrating Lunar New Year in just a few days. While it is easy these days to drift into hopelessness in light of the multitude of complex global […]
York University UNESCO Chair Charles Hopkins and Adjunct Professor Mark Terry will represent the University by joining the international team of judges evaluating applications for the annual QS ImpACT Awards, which honour the sustainability efforts of young changemakers from across the globe. Find out more.
Welcome to the December edition of our UNESCO Chair newsletter! With COP28 in full swing, many colleagues are currently engaged on the ground in Dubai and we hope you will create a huge global handprint for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) while you are there! For the first time, a dedicated Greening Education Hub will […]
Welcome to the November edition of our UNESCO Chair Newsletter! Greetings from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) where the 13th Global Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) Conference (31 October - 2 November 2023) with more than 150 participants from 39 countries in-person and online is currently underway. With a focus on the whole-community approach in embedding Education […]
Welcome to the July edition of our UNESCO Chair Newsletter! First of all, we welcome our US colleagues back into the UNESCO universe as the United States will return to UNESCO as a full member state as early as July. We look forward to working closer together again! The month of June was packed with […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto and Happy World Environment Day! 5 June 1972 was the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Development and has been marked to celebrate the environment since then. While we often make the point for the equal importance of all three dimensions of sustainability […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto where the beautiful cherry blossom season is just coming to an end. We hope this newsletter finds you healthy and well. We are five months away from this year's United Nations SDG Summit to be held in September 2023 to renew the global commitment to the […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto. Most who read this newsletter are actively engaged with promoting the concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and you are aware of the tremendous growth of the discussion and opportunity that has emerged over time. To accelerate action and to promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto. Welcome to the March edition of the UNESCO Chair Newsletter! From 6-10 March 2023, we will celebrate the global SDG Awareness Week and the national SDG Week Canada as a broad collaboration of the higher education community, featuring a number of events and activities. The week […]