“Mediterranean Mountains: climate change, landscape and biodiversity”, is a workshop organized by the Italian delegation* of the Alpine Convention and held at the Bio Mediterranean Cluster on 4th September 2015. The Workshop’s intent was to encourage sharing of experience and strengthening and expanding networking and cooperation among regional stakeholders in the Mediterranean on the governance of mountain territories.
Here is possible to download the full report.
The two days event will be held 24-25 April 2017, at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA The symposium does not require a registration fee. It is envisioned that papers will lead to special issues of journals and edited volumes.
• To submit a paper proposal, send a 300-word abstract, a short biographical note, and full contact information.
• To submit a session (panel/roundtable) proposal please provide a 300- word session abstract as well as abstracts from and information about each presenter. Panels are expected to include 3-4 presenters and roundtables 4-5 presenters.
• Deadline for both is November 1st, 2016.
• For further information and to submit a proposal please send a message to EnvironmentalJusticeCSU@gmail.com
The call for session proposals for The Science Centre World Summit (SCWS) is now open for a month!
The SCWS is a global meeting of professionals of science centres/museums and their networks from around the world, convened once every three years. The second Summit will be held in 2017 in Tokyo, Japan, hosted by Miraikan and countries in the Asia and Pacific region.
The SCWS offers an opportunity for science centres/museums to discuss their strategies for their new roles in society. At this Summit, representatives of participating science centres / museums will have discussions with scientists and educators as well as other stakeholders in society, including policymakers, industry and citizens communities, and build varied partnerships to create new approach to global issues followed by concrete actions.
For more information visit the website
Two days of informal consultations took place in Rabat, Morocco on 9 September, 2016. Invited by the Moroccan incoming Presidency of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22/CMP12)140 delegates and climate negotiators from over 50 countries kicked off the closed-door meeeting to advance on discussions around key issues.
The opening session to the two-day closed-door consultations included remarks from Salaheddine Mezouar, COP22 President and Morocco Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Aziz Mekouar, COP22 Ambassador for Multilateral Negotiations, Hakima El Haite, COP22 Special Envoy and Morocco High-Level Climate Champion. French COP21 Climate Ambassador Laurence Tubiana was also on hand as well as a video message to delegates from COP21 President Segolene Royal.
Like COP22 President Salaheddine Mezouar, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa also stressed the need to make significant progress on the $100 billion roadmap and for countries to increase their capacity to fight global warming. The Executive Secretary stated that “success for Marrakech means carrying the historic Paris Agreement forward and implementing it to transition towards a low-carbon economy”.
The WEEC Permament Secretariat is honored to welcome the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia, Gigla Augulashvili, at the 9th World Environmental Education Congress to be held on September 9-15, 2017, in Vancouver, BC,Canada.
The next congress – Culturenvironment: Weaving new connections – will be the occasion to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 1977 Tbilisi Declaration, which is a significant platform of global educational efforts towards a sustainable world.
For more information please visit the official website here.
The MedCOP Climate 2016, 18- 19 July 2016, is organized by the Region of Tanger-Tétouan-AlHoceima. It gathered representatives from Mediterranean countries, including the private sector, civil society, and regional and international organizations.
The conference is a milestone for the Mediterranean countries to discuss the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015, while preparing for the upcoming COP22 in Morocco and an operational road map for mitigation and adaptation.
This COP22 is now the climate COP of Action, with the significant challenge of bringing together stakeholders into a dialogue for action and involvement from governments and civil society.
For more information, visit the MedCOP Climat website here.
The COP21 triggered special momentum for tackling climate change globally. All the UfM Member States signed the Paris Agreement in New York on 22 April 2016 and they are now preparing for the COP22 in Marrakech in November 2016. As part of this preparation, the French Ministry for Environment, Energy and the Sea, and COP21 Presidency, hosted on 12 May, 2016 the 4th Union for the Mediterranean Climate Change Expert Group (UfMCCEG) in the Oceanographic Institute of Paris.
More than 50 climate expert representatives from UfM member countries, key international organisations working in the field of climate change such as the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as well as civil society representatives gathered in Paris. Participants will follow up on the Paris Agreement and on the implementation of actions related to the fields of local authorities, private sector investments and capacity building. A work programme for 2016 aiming at enhancing the Mediterranean climate agenda under a regional umbrella of medium-term strategy was adopted at the end of the meeting.
Keeping the global temperature rise to below 2oC, the target set by the Paris Agreement, calls for actions that cannot only rely on nationally-determined contributions. A coordinated regional approach on Climate Action is needed to successfully achieve this target in the Mediterranean, one of the most sensitive areas in terms of the impact of climate change.
Contributions are also invited for BPSD’s Peace Dialogues section. This is the non-peer-reviewed section of BPSD, designed for publishing short essays and thought pieces on the role of business in enhancing peace and sustainable development. In addition to the main section of BPSD, in which academic papers and empirical articles are published, essays in the PD section focus on the practice of business and peace (e.g. tools, examples or case studies) philosophical essay (e.g. new ideas and approaches), as well as on analyses of the role of businesses in contemporary conflicts and current affairs.
Espace Recherche provides a variety of theoretical and methodological resources in education related to the Environment and Eco-citizenship.
The directory offers access to a list of core journals in several languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese) in Education Related to the Environment (ERE) and Education for Sustainable Development (
ESD). You will find training tools and useful material to support and disseminate research activities and educational thinking.
Here some reviews and articles reviewed by Lucie Sauvée, Director of Centr’ERE, Prof. at the faculty of “Sciences of Education” at UQAM – University of Québec in Montréal.
Stefan Bengtsson, including a Rejoinder to:
Heila Lotz-Sisitika
Tom Berryman/Lucy Sauve
Edgar Gonzalez-Gaudiano
Bob Jickling
Helen Kopnina
Kelly Teamey/Udi Mandel
With the transition now well underway from the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2006-2015), this SI provides a timely response and critical insights into the continuing challenges confronting local, translocal, international, and global education for ecologically sustainable development activities relevant to policy, curriculum, NGOs, and pedagogy.
The Journal of Environmental Education, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2, 2016 is available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
The Conclusion is free for download here What next? Post-critical materialisms in environmental education – Phillip G. Payne Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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