News & Blogs: Sustainable Development Goals

We’re delighted to announce that Learning for Sustainability Scotland has been shortlisted for the ESD Okayama Award 2025, which recognizes outstanding ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) initiatives across the world. 

Our second ‘Critical Sustainability Conversation’ focused on ‘Education, Sustainability and decolonialism: thinking and moving beyond the greenwash’ and was held in collaboration with colleagues from Queen Margaret University and Canterbury Christ Church University.

We were delighted to recently host the first of our new series of ‘Critical Sustainability Conversations’, which seek to provide spaces for the ambitions outlined above. This Conversation focused on ‘Mapping the terrain around the SDGs’ and was held in collaboration with SDG Network Scotland.

The LfS Connect session on 23rd January 2025 offered participants an opportunity to hear more about, and discuss ‘A golden thread: Learning for Sustainability and the Curriculum Improvement Cycle.

We’re delighted to be running our FREE ‘Live at the COP’ MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) once again. Join us, and a global community of learners like you, from 11-24 November.

It’s a time of change here at Learning for Sustainability Scotland.

We’re delighted to welcome our new Director, Dr Beth Christie, as our current Director, Professor Pete Higgins, steps down this summer after eleven years in the role.

The following article was published on page 16 of the Spring 2024 edition of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s magazine. In it, Professor Pete Higgins from The University of Edinburgh and Learning for Sustainability Scotland shares his thoughts on Learning for Sustainability in Scotland’s schools.

Jenny Gilruth MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, has hailed the contribution of Learning for Sustainability Scotland in its pan-sectoral approach to advancing the skills, knowledge, and values needed for a more sustainable and equitable world.  ‘Learning for Sustainability’ as this kind of learning is known in Scotland, is now more prominent than ever across Scottish education.

It’s official – Scotland’s national Learning for Sustainability Call to Action has been launched and we’re delighted to be playing our part in it here at Learning for Sustainability Scotland.

In November, Betsy King, Development Manager with LfS Scotland, travelled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to participate in the 17th meeting of the strategic Ubuntu Committee of Peers and the 13th Global RCE Conference.