Run by Okayama City and the ESD Okayama Award Steering Committee, the Award will reward outstanding ESD practices in local communities around the world to showcase ESD and to support organizations carrying out ESD activities. Deadline for application is 29 July 2016.

For more details check their website.

The consultative workshop to review the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Environmental Education Action Plan (AEEAP 2014-2018) was held in conjunction with the 8th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Environmental Education (AWGEE) in Singapore 11-12 April 2016.

Since June 2014, around 500 youth champions from 75 teams presented action-oriented, practicable and community participative proposals to address water and sanitation problems.

Watch the video on 'Strengthening Water and Sanitation in Urban Settings: Inter-University Competition on Water Resources Management' 

The New Urban Agenda will be the outcome document agreed upon at the Habitat III cities conference in October 2016. In turn, it will guide the efforts around urbanization of a wide range of actors — nation states, city and regional leaders, international development funders, United Nations programmes and civil society — for the next 20 years. This document aims to guide sustainable urbanization globally over next two decades. This will hopefully jump-start political negotiations ahead of the Habitat III conference in October.

Participate in the Green Olympiad organised by TERI to increase environment awareness of students age 14 and above. Any school can participate. Examinations are on 30 August and 22 November 2016. Schools can opt for any one of these dates and all three levels will be conducted simultaneously. All participants will receive certificate of participation / merit / distinction based on their performance.

For more information click here.

The flyer and the registration form can be found below.

April 24, 2016 Kim Smith, Jamie Stamberger, and Kyoko Shiota RCE Greater Portland

When RCE Greater Portland formed its regional network in 2013, its coordinators wanted to know if there was an ideal governance structure that Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) on ESD had discovered. With the current acknowledgement of 146 RCEs by the UNU-IAS around the world, there remains a paucity of research on whether a particular form of governance has been identified as most effective.