1.ESD Activities Around the World
1992 |
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro) |
2002 |
World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) |
Fifty-seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly |
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2005 |
UNESCO drafts implementation plan for UN Decade of ESD, and plan is approved by the UN General Assembly |
2009 |
ESD World Conference (Bonn) |
2012 |
Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio de Janeiro) |
2013 |
Thirty-seventh session of the General Conference of UNESCO |
2014 |
UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (Aichi-Nagoya, Okayama, Japan) |
2015 |
Launch of the GAP (2015-2019) |
2019 |
40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference and the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly |
2020 |
Launch of the ESD for 2030 (2020-2030) |
2021 |
UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (Berlin, online) |
2.ESD Activities in Japan
Japanese National Commission for UNESCO and involved ministries and agencies in Japan have cooperated on various activities to promote ESD. In 2006, an ESD implementation plan for Japan was drafted by an inter-ministerial meeting on the UNDESD established by the Cabinet Office. Since then, various entities have coordinated to promote ESD on the basis of that plan.
(1)Developments in Japan
2005 |
Inter-ministerial meeting on the UNDESD is established |
2006 |
Japan ESD implementation plan drafted |
2008 |
Curriculum guidelines ("Courses of Study") revised (official announcement in March for kindergartens, elementary schools, and middle schools) |
2009 |
Curriculum guidelines ("Courses of Study") revised (official announcement in March for high schools and special needs schools) |
2011 |
Japan ESD implementation plan revised |
2013 |
Second Basic Plan for the Promotion of Education drafted |
2015 |
Inter-ministerial meeting on ESD established |
Round table on ESD established |
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2016 |
Japan's implementation plan on the Global Action Programme on ESD drafted |
(2)Japanese National Commission for UNESCO
2003 |
Recommendations made to UNESCO on its international implementation plan for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development |
2007 |
Recommendation made to UNESCO to further promote the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development |
2008 |
"Proposal Regarding the Effective Utilization of UNESCO Associated Schools for the Promotion and Dissemination of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)" |
2014 |
"Proposal Regarding Invigoration of UNESCO Activities in an Era of Diversity: Building a Sustainable Society" |
2015 |
Special interest group of the education subcommittee complied a report "Towards the further promotion of ESD" |
(Office of the Director-General for International Affairs)