Agenda 21 E/CN 17/1999/ 11 Drucksache 14/3319 CSD

Priority areas for actions	Tasks	Key actors cited by the Commission on Sustainable Development
A. Clarify and communicate the concept and key messages of education for sustainable development	A.1 Implement chapter 36 and the Commission on Sustainable Development work programme as part of integrated follow-up to major United Nations conferences and conventions	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), other United Nations bodies, Governments, major groups
	A.2 Continue to clarify and communicate concepts and key messages, with emphasis on regional and national levels	UNESCO
B. Review national education policies and reorient formal educational systems	B.1 Develop policies and strategies for reorienting formal education towards sustainable development	Governments at all levels
	B.2 Include sustainable development objectives in curricula	Governments at all levels
	B.3 Develop guidelines for the reorientation of teacher training	UNESCO
	B.4 Reorient teacher training	Governments
	B.5 Introduce an interdisciplinary approach in teaching and research	Institutions of higher education
	B.6 Give due consideration to how the reform of higher education may support sustainable development	Participants at the conference (October 1998); UNESCO
C. Incorporate education into national strategies and action plans for sustainable development	C.1 Make education and public awareness significant components in regional, national and local strategies and action plans for sustainable development	Governments
	C.2 Complete the survey of existing regional and national strategies and action plans	UNESCO, with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat
	C.3 Integrate education into national and local strategies	Governments at all levels
	C.4 Integrate the aspect of gender balance and empowerment of women into national education strategies	Governments
D. Educate to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns in all countries	D.1 Raise awareness of relation to sustainability of current patterns of consumption and production; use educational tools and consumer feedback for policy-making; develop and promote social instruments; continue to work on indicators	Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, UNESCO, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
	D.2 Collect best practices in media and advertising	World Business Council for Sustainable Development, International Chamber of Commerce, trade unions, civil society
	D.3 Report to the Commission at its seventh session on progress made	Secretary-General of the United Nations
F. Identify and share innovative practices	F.1 Continue work on international electronic registry	UNESCO
	F.2 Develop and strengthen international and regional alliances, associations, networks among educational and training institutions and professional bodies	Not specified
	F.3 Strengthen networks and partnerships	Governments
	F.4 Recognize and use traditional knowledge	Not specified
G. Raise public awareness	G.1 Develop capacities for raising public awareness and access to information	Governments
	G.2 Undertake information campaigns	Governments at all levels, media, advertising agencies
	G.3 Take into account relevant international conventions	Governments

Summary, prepared by UNESCO as task manager for chapter 36, of decision taken by the Commission on Sustainable Development at its sixth session (New York, 20 April-1 May 1998) to adopt an expanded version of the work programme on chapter 36 of Agenda 21 that had been initiated at its fourth session in 1996.