ERIC ED371940: Interagency Consultation Meeting on Co-operation and Co-ordination in Environmental Education (3rd, Paris, France, November 6-8, 1990). Final Report.

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Interagency Consultation Meeting on Co-operation and
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Co-ordination in Environmental Education (3rd, Paris,
France, November 6-8, 1990). Final Report.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
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ABSTRACT
United Nations agencies and other intergovernmental
and nongovernmental organizations c-- :erned with environmental
education (EE) met for the third time by invitation of UNESCO in
order to develop cooperation and coordination in EE and training
in three
among the agencies. This report of the meeting is presented
sections. The first section reports the proceedings of the
conference. The second secti.on gives the history of the UNESCO-UNEP
International Environmental Education Program (IEEP) from 1975-1990.
The section includes a description of IEEP's general framework,
actions taken by IEEP from 1975-1990, and future actions planned.
Priority areas reflected in the future plans include teacher
education, development of curricula and teaching materivls, research
and experimentation to develop awareness among educational planners
and decision-makers, EE information. The third section presents
summaries of presentations of 10 participating organizations;
(1)
United Nations Environment Programme; (2) Food and Agricultural
(3) International Labour Office; (4) United Nations
Organization;
Industrial Development Organization; (5) World Health Organization;
(7) World Bank; (United
(6) World Meteorological Organization;
nations Development Programme; (8) Commission of the European
(9) International Council of Scientific Unions; and (10)
Communities;
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources. Appendices contain a copy of the agenda, the welcoming
address from Colin N. Power, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO's
Education Sector, and a list of participants. OgNO
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Third Interagency Consultation Meeting
and Co-ordination
on Co-operation
in Environmental Education
organized by
UNESCO
in the framework of
UNESCO-UNEP International
Environmental Education Programme (IEEP)
FINAL REPORT
UNESCO
Paris, France
Division of Education
6-8 November 1990
for the Quality of Life
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Table of Contents
Page
Introduction
iii
Proceedings
I.
1
UNESCO-UNEP International Environmental Education
II.
Programme (IEEP)
5
III. Presentations of Participating Organizations
11
Annexes
Agenda
Welcoming Address
List of Participants
ED/91/WS/21
5
iii
Introduction
The first Interagency Consultation Meeting
on Environmental
Education was held in Paris,
France, at UNESCO Headquarters, 3-4
October
This
meeting
1974.
direct
was
response
in
to
Recommendation 96
of the United Nations Conference on
the Human
Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 1972, which stated that "the [UN]
Secretary-General,
the
organizations
United
the
of
Nations
system,
especially UNESCO,
and the other international agencies
concerned
after
should,
consultation
and agreement,
take the
necessary
steps
establish
to
international
an
programme
in
environmental education..."
The second Interagency Consultation Meeting was also held by
UNESCO in Paris, 28-29 April 1977, to discuss further cooperation
and
coordination
in environmental
education (EE), particularly
in the
framework of the
Unesco-UNEP International Environmental
Education Programme (IEEP),
which was launched in 1975 after the
first
Interagency
Consultation
Meeting.
Another
major
consideration
was
preparation
the
for
Unesco-UNEP
Intergovernmental Conference or Environmental
Education, held in
Tbilisi (USSR), 14-26 October 1977.
The
third Interagency Consultation
Meeting
on Cooperation
Coordination
and
Environmental
in
Education
was
held
under
similar circumstances,
6-8 November 1990, in Paris
France, and
,
considered
inter
alia
preparations
United
the
for
Nations
Conference on Environment and
Development,
to be held in Brazil
at which the progress
in 1992,
in EE since
made
the Stockholm
Conference will
be
discussed and Agenda-21
established for the
future, extending into the 21st century.
1
Proceedings
The third consultation meeting among UN
agencies
and other
intergovernmental
organizations
and
nongovernmental
concerned
environmental
with
education
convened by
was
UNESCO
in the
framework
UNESCO-UNEP
International
the
of Environmental
Education Programme, Paris, 6-8 November 1990. As before, a major
cooperation
objective
was
coordination
and
environmental
in
education and training
among the agencies and other world bodies
participating.
The
consultation meeting
among the first steps taken
was
preparation
toward
United
of
Nations
the
Conference
on
Environment and Development, to be held in Brazil, 1992
-- twenty
years after the historic UN Conference on
the Human Environment,
Stockholm,
UNESCO-UNEP
The
1972.
International
Environmental
Education Programme )
itself was launched in 1975 in
response to
Recommendation
the Stockholm
of
Conference,
96
following the
first Interagency Consultation Meeting (1974).
The UN
agencies
and other organizations which
took part,
through
their
representatives,
third
the
Interagency
in
Consultation Meeting were:
the Food and Agriculture Organization
the International Labour Office (ILO),
(FAO),
the UN Industrial
Development
Organization
and
the World
Health
(UNIDO),
Organization (WHO),
the World Meteorological Organization (WM0),
the World Bank,
the
International Council of
Scientific Unions
the International
Union for the Conservation
(ICSU),
of Nature
and Natural Resources (IUCN),
well
as
Unesco,
UNEP
as
and a
member of the Secretariat of the UN Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED).
The UN Develo7Nment Proamme (UNDP) and the
Commission
of European Communities (CEC)
sent reports
on their
respective organizations' environmental education and information
activities.
substantive
The
agenda
included
presentation and
(1)
:
discussion of environmental education
and information programmes
of participating agencies
and organizations;
(2) UN cooperation
and coordination in environmental education and training; and (3)
suggestions
concerning
UN
the
inputs
Conference on
EE
into
Environment and Development, Brazil, 1992. (See Annex I)
The consultation
meeting was opened,
November
1990, by
6
Coordinator
UNESCO's
for
Environment
the
(representing
the
Director-General),
who emphasized two challenges confronting the
participants.
One was the
need
respond
to
the
to
call from
governments to accord
high priority to
environmental education,
training and information in
general and particularly
during the
preparatory
process of
the
UN Conference
Environment and
on
The other
Development.
challenge
was
need
the
make the
to
information emerging from scientific environmental
research more
"digestible"
and more widely distributed,
especially to policy-
decision-makers,
and
than
has been
The welcoming
the
case.
address on behalf of UNESCO's Director-General was delivered by
2
Sector, who
Direcor-General
Education
Assistant
the
of
the
stressed the imperative need of EE in the face of an increasingly
menaced world environment, and Tinesco's response. (See Annex II)
and
education
environmental
UNEP's
presenting
Before
four
indicated
representative
activities,
training
its
UNESCO-UNEP International
the
challenges for the next
stage of
participating
how
Education Programme
Environmental
(1)
:
of environmental
achieve the goal
could help
organizations
to
IEEP
Unesco-UNEP
extension the
for
literacy
of
all;
(2)
innovative
designing
of
new,
partnership
to
others;
(3)
educating
and
environmental
approaches
information;
for
(4)
people towards individual and collective environmental action. As
for UNEP's EET activities, see Part III.(Presentations, pp.11-14)
UNEP's information
There was also a special presentation of
media
information
kits,
publications,
involving
programme,
press conferences,
fact
sheets,
services (releases,
features,
audio-visual services (videos, films,
seminar/workshops,
etc.),
radio programmes) and inter-agency relations.
the Unesco-UNEP
activities
of
and
the plans
Details
on
pp 5 - 10)
(See Part
Programme followed.
International EE
II,
Unesco's environmental sciences programmes were then presented as
and
awareness
environmental
public
heighten
seeking
to
(1)
science in environmental
to reinforce the role of
concern;
(2)
of scientific
diversification
promote
to
and (3)
management;
to different
communication
and
information
its
environmental
specialists; (b)
technical
The
includes
last
audiences.
(a)
are
efforts
information
special
whom
decision-makers
(for
as teachers,
such
non-specialist audiences,
and (c)
planned) ;
A primary thrust is promotion
environmental organizations,
etc.
results.
communication
of
research
its
and
scientific
of
Biosphere (MAB)
Man
and the
the
were
Particularly mentioned
"Ecology in Action"(1981);
Programme and
its 36-poster exhibit,
the International Hydrological Programme (IHP); the International
Intergovernmental
and
the
Programme;
Correlation
Geological
A current priority is establishment of
Oceanographic Commission.
an international Code of Environmental Ethics for Engineers.
informative
series
reports
These
initiated
of
a
meeting
consultation
participants
the
presentations
at
by
education,
environmental
their
concerning
organizations'
own
The exchange of information and
training and information
plans.
plus the ensuing discussions of each presentation
experiences --
the meeting.
illuminated this particularly important part of
--
(See Part III. Presentations)
the meeting's agenda
As for the second substantive item
on
international level,
coordination
the
at
cooperation
and
--
-- t_e
within the UN family
but not exclusively,
particularly,
to point
quick
participant was
consultation meeting itself,
a
out, demonstrated the need for a periodical -- annual or biennial
information and
exchange
updated
get-together
of
an
for
Moreover a clearing-house was suggested for receipt
experiences.
participating
materials
relevant
information
and
all
of
of
found in the
For this the practical solution was
organizations.
3
consensus of the meeting that the IEEP newsletter Connect be used
clearing-house
the
as
reports and
for
notices
of
the
on
participating
organizations'
activities
and
materials.
In
addition to eliminating --
or at least minimizing -- duplication
of such
prigr
materials,
coordination and cooperation in their
preparation
and production
deemed
were
advisable.
Here
the
UNESCO-UNEP
International Environmental Education
Programme was
considered a possible
point
focal
coordinating mechanism.
and
Further
suggestions and
recommendations
involved
an effective
division of
efforts so
to cover all audiences and regions;
as
bilateral
or trilateral partnerships
similar to
that of Unesco
UNEP
and
as well as
reinforced links with the
IEEP; continual
monitoring and evaluation
possibly
these activities,
of
on an
institutional
as to periodically
basis,
so
improve, modify or
update their priorities
and implementation.
Above
was the
all
general
feeling that
another consultation meeting
of a similar
nature be
held
within the next year,
assuredly before the UN
Conference of 1992.
As for the
UN
Conference
Environment and Development
on
the
representative
UNCED Secretariat
member
(UNCED),
the
of
summarized
the current state of
its preparations
and solicited
suggestions concerning
noting that the presentations
EE inputs,
and discussions of the consultation meeting had
already provided
him with a number.
In calling for the conference, the UN General
Assembly had stressed the need to find integrated strategies that
would prevent further degradation of the
environment and promote
sustainable,
environmentally-sound development in
every part of
the world.
this
UN
connection,
In
Assembly had
General
the
decided that
one of
the conference's
objectives should be "to
environmental
promote
especially
education,
younger
the
e.e
generation,
as well as other measures
increase awareness of
to
value
the
the
environment."
of
Working
An
Party
has
EE
consequently
been
the Secretariat and
set up
by
is currently
preparing
reports
other
and
by
:arected
papers,
the
as
Preparatory
Committee,"in
coordination colsultation
and
with
UNESCO
and
other
relevant
organizations"
those
vich
as
--
partaking in
the consultation
meeting -- to develop
"in order
proposals on
environmental education
awareness for
public
and
consideration by
the Preparatory
Close cooperation
Committee."
was promised by participants, who also requested to be kept fully
infecmed of the progress made.
Each agency
organization
and
participating
the Paris
in
consultation meeting, when discussing cooperation in the field of
environmental education and training,
stressed
cooperation with
UNESCO,
as the UN agency whose mandate inter alia
is education,
in the
framework of the
UNESCO-UNEP international Environmental
Education Programme.
this connection,
In
also
consensus
there was
among
a
participants that
education
their
environmental
activities be
cooperatively
conducted on
the basis of
the goals, objecttves,
characteristics
established
and
principles
the
by
Intergovernmental
Environmental
Education Conference
held in
Tbilisi
January
October
(USSR),
Connect,
1977
(see
1973).
4
activities should be
Similarly,
it was agreed that
future
EE
the Field of
based on the International strategy
for Action
in
which was
for the
Education and Training
1990s,
Environmental
Congress
on
by
International
the
adopted
unanimously
Moscow (USSR),
held
and
Training,
Environmental Education
in
IEEP. (See
UNESCO-UNEP
the
in the framework
August
of
1987,
Connect, June and September 1987).
participants concluded, was to link
The primary
objective,
training and information efforts of
the environmental education,
their agencies and organizations so as to promote and contribute,
powerfully and effectively, to environmentally sound, sustainable
was a
development and a higher quality of life. In a word, there
is environmental
consensus to the effect that the universal goal
particularly, in-depth env-',ronmental
literacy for all,
and more
In reaching these conclusions, the
know-how for decision-makers.
toward preparation of a
consultation meeting made
a major step
Environment and
substantive
on
Conference
UN
and
successfu:,
Development, planned for 1992 in Brazil.
Cooperation and
Meeting
third Interagency Consultation
on
The
8 November
Coordination in
closed,
Environmental Education was
Education.
1990, by UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for