UN CC:Learn News
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Climate Change Training for Health Surveillance Assistants
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) organized frontline training workshops on Climate Change for Health Surveillance Assistants in all the three regions in Malawi.
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Inspiring Climate Change Learning @ COP 19
On the last day of the Warsaw Climate Conference (COP 19) more than 80 delegates, including inter alia three Ministers, two Ambassadors, Members of Parliament, a UN Resident Coordinator, university professors and four teachers, came together to discuss the results of three years of work in five countries.
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Green Balloons at Climate Conference in Warsaw
The COP 19 side event "Combatting Climate Change through Education and Training” (organized by the United Nations Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness) featured nine panellists from a range of youth initiatives, the education sector and UN agencies.
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Institute of Teachers Training and the National Council on Climate Change of the Dominican Republic Graduate 400 Teachers on Climate Change Programme
The National Council for Climate Change and the Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMD) and the National Institute of Education and Training of Teachers (INAFOCAM) invested on 1 November more than 400 teachers who completed the Programme of Education on Climate Change for Sustainable Development, designed by UNESCO, in the Jaragua Hotel.
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Benin Government Builds Capacities to Access Climate Finance
A four-day training was conducted in Bohicon, Benin for staff of the Ministry of Environment in charge of Climate Change Management, Reforestation, and Protection of Natural and Forest Resources and related organisations to strengthen capacities to access different climate change funding sources. Altogether 30 staff were trained.
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Malawi Government Trains over 250 Frontline Forestry Personnel on Climate Change
The Government of Malawi has, in the months of September and October 2013, trained 257 forestry assistants across the country in climate change, in an ongoing effort to enhance knowledge and skills in climate change management among key personnel in sectors that are threatened by climate change.
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UN CC:Learn Fourth Steering Group Meeting Endorses the Work of the Partnership and Recommends a Future Implementation Phase
Representatives from 12 UN organizations and 5 UN CC:Learn pilot countries (Benin, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi and Uganda) participated in the 4th Steering Group Meeting of UN CC:Learn Partners, 2-3 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Malawi Launches its Climate Change Learning Strategy: Already 4 Million Primary School Girls and Boys Reached and 400 Workers Trained
The Right Honourable Ms Halima Daud MP, the Malawi Minister for Environment and Climate Change Management, launched Malawi’s Climate Change Learning Strategy today, in front of a full house at the Sunbird Lilongwe Hotel.
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UN CC:Learn Presents Key Achievements in the Area of Climate Change Education at the 2013 Meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Committee for the UNDESD
The United Nations Children's Fund organized the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Committee for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development on 16-17 September 2013 at UNICEF headquarters. The meeting provided an important opportunity to share best practices and take stock of the ESD agenda setting process beyond 2014.
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Indonesia Takes an Important Step Forward on Climate Change Learning
In front of a packed auditorium at the Kartika Chandra Hotel in Central Jakarta, the President of Indonesia’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Dr. Rachmat Witoelar, launched the National Climate Change Learning Strategy. The event is part of the national UN CC: Learn pilot project. .