This session is organized in collaboration with the 28-for-28 webinar series organized by UN Resident Coordinator Office in the UAE. The conversation will explore what it means to be a green school and embrace the whole-institution approach to ESD, with a particular focus on climate change. It will reflect on how the green transformation of learning spaces inspires the overall re-imagination of education systems as innovation hubs for change towards more sustainable futures.

Welcome remarks

• Ms Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

• Mr Ovais Sarmad, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Moderator:

• Ms Dena Assaf, UN Resident Coordinator, UN Country Team, UAE

Panellists:

• H.E. Dr. Amna AlDahak Alshamsi Assistant Undersecretary, Care and Capacity Building Sector, Ministry of Education, UAE

• Representative of World Food Programme, co-coordinator of Pillar 1 on Greening Schools of the Greening Education Partnership (TBC)

• School representative, Foundation for Environmental Education (TBC)

---

This is Session #1 in UNESCO-UNFCCC's Webinar Series “Climate Change Education for Social Transformation: On the road to COP 28.”

Following the success of the first UNESCO-UNFCCC webinar series on climate change education for social transformation on the road to COP27, which gathered 15,000 participants from 184 countries to discuss how to green education policy and curriculum, UNESCO and UNFCCC are launching a second webinar series on the road to COP28 in Dubai, UAE, focused on the topic of greening school.

Tune into the upcoming webinar season which will take place from May to December 2023, where each of the six episodes will explore how to get learning institutions climate-ready by integrating a whole-institution approach to Education for Sustainable Development to transform teaching and learning, school facilities and operation, school governance and community engagement.