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EOS2.6 | Where do we stand on sustainable development? Geoscience education and UN 2030 Agenda.
EDI
Where do we stand on sustainable development? Geoscience education and UN 2030 Agenda.
Convener: Francesca Lozar | Co-conveners: andrea gerbaudo, Elena Egidio, Andrea Fildani, Marco Tonon
We are halfway on the road to 2030 assumed by the UN COP21 (Paris 2015) and many studies, including the UN 2023 Sustainable Development Goals Report, have revealed weaknesses and delays in the path toward the Goals, hindered by the impacts of the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, the fragility of the global economy, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Geoscientists may have a crucial role in implementing the SDGs and moving society toward a more sustainable future, but we have the imperative urgency of aligning geoeducation with the Sustainable Development Goals before - in the words of UN General Secretary António Guterres – “the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been”.

This session invites presentations by individuals and teams on geoscience education practice, research, and reflection, addressing questions like:
- how can earth science educators promote human behavior change toward sustainable development?
- what has already been done to put future geoscientists at the center of sustainability issues?

This session invites you to share your work in order to create a community of teachers active in geoscience education for sustainable development and to outline a framework in which to move in the immediate future.