IAU work on HESD

In preparation for the International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Nagoya 9 November 2014, and the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014, IAU prepared a special issue of IAU Horizons on The role of higher education in the post 2015 Development Agenda. Download Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.
IAU work on HESD - by Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) as an extension of the United Nations global agenda on Education for Sustainable Development led by UNESCO has been one of the major themes for IAU. Long before the declaration of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (UN-DESD), 2005-2014, IAU was an active participant in not only supporting the agenda but more importantly championing it among its Member institutions and beyond. In fact as early as 1993, IAU held the Ninth Round Table in Kyoto, Japan and endorsed the Kyoto Declaration representing more than 650 of its Member institutions and organisations across 120 countries. The declaration embodies the substance of both the Halifax and Swansea documents (See IAU 1993 Kyoto Declaration on Sustainable Development available on the IAU portal on HESD: www.iau-hesd.net. More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.