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UIL team visits Klimahaus Bremerhaven to discuss Climate Change Education
19 February 2013
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has held a series of exploratory meetings to discuss a joint project on Climate Change Education between UIL and KlimaCampus, a network of climate researchers, within the framework of UNESCO’s initiative on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development and the Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Hamburg.
In February 2013, three staff members of UIL accepted an invitation to visit the permanent exhibition on climate change at the Klimahaus in Bremerhaven, Germany. This purpose-built facility is widely recognised as a highly successful climate change education project. The UIL team also met senior representatives of the Klimahaus, the KlimaCampus, the German UNESCO Commission and the Institute for Integrative Studies at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, to discuss the parameters of a potential joint project.
It was agreed that, drawing on the technical expertise of the KlimaCampus and the convening power of UIL/UNESCO, the project should address asymmetries of information among all stakeholders, and present, in the clearest possible way, the choices involved in mitigating the worst effects of climate change and adapting to the inevitable changes.
Links:
UNESCO’s initiative on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (PDF)
