Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is at the heart of today’s debates and is a priority of UNESCO. In the framework of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21), UNESCO, as the lead UN agency for ESD, developed the UNESCO GREEN CITIZENS project, a multimedia platform and a travelling exhibition which I invite you to discover :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ZacrXbIds

The project aims to pay tribute to the men and women who, every day, educate, sensitize and transmit the best practices related to sustainable development to their respective communities. Today, we launched a participative platform inviting all educators worldwide to communicate and share their initiatives and projects on ESD.

The FAO group is already much involved in education for sustainable development, and this is why we would like to invite you to share your initiatives on the UNESCO GREEN CITIZENS platform an make it known to the community :http://en.unesco.org/greencitizens/your-stories.

The Food security and climate change challenge badge project you started a few years ago, for example, is a great example of projects GREEN CITIZENS would like to highlight on its platform. Should this initiative still be ongoing and should you want to share it on our platform, it would be our pleasure to do so. Furthermore, if your group has developed other “practical” ESD projects you would want to share with us, don’t hesitate to do so : http://en.unesco.org/greencitizens/propose-project.