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RCE Global Webinar #2 2021

RCE Global Webinar #2 2021

Tuesday 08 June 2021

08:00 – 10:00 BST (i.e. GMT +1)

1. Why did we hold this webinar?

This webinar was the second of two ‘bridge’ events between the 2020 RCE Regional Meetings and the RCE Global Conference, which will be held from 16-18 November 2021.

 It :

  • Enabled and sustained collaborative conversations across the RCE Network
  • Launched the new Roadmap for the RCE Community 2021-2030
  • Shared and celebrated good practice regarding climate-related activity from across the RCE community
  • Explored how we take action on the UNESCO ESD Roadmap through the ‘lens’ of climate-related activity as we approach COP26.

2. Event recordings

  • i. Welcome and introduction: Dr Akio Takemoto from UNU-IAS and Dr Rehema White from RCE Scotland welcome delegates and share the Agenda.
  • ii. ‘The Future We Want’: Edward Chidombe Msiska and Emily Farquhar share their vision of a sustainable future.
  • iii. ‘Launching the RCE ESD 2030 Roadmap’: Dr Jonghwi Park from UNU-IAS shares the new RCE Roadmap
  • iv. Five RCEs share examples of good practice linking climate change and the Five Priority Action Areas of the UNESCO ESD 2030 Roadmap:
  1. Advancing Policy: RCE Dobong-Gu: ‘Creating ESD textbooks with government, schools and citizens
  2. Transforming Learning Environments: RCE Cebu: Community-Based Education for Sustainable Development: Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge in Mangrove Protection and Conservation – a Climate Action
  3. Building Capacities of Educators: RCE East Midlands: Cross-sectoral carbon literacy training’
  4. RCE Ogun: ‘Empowering and mobilising youth for climate action’
  5. RCE Salisbury: ‘Coming together for sustainability: meeting the goals of the Agenda 2030’

3. Pre-Event materials

a. Agenda and welcome

b. Pre-webinar briefings & reading
i. Further reading:
ii. Additional examples of RCE activity linking climate change and the Priority Action Areas of the UNESCO ESD 2030 Roadmap:

1. Advancing policy:
2. Transforming learning environments:
3. Building capacities of educators:
4. Empowering and mobilising youth:
5. Accelerating local-level action: