Challenges include the integration of social, cultural and economic aspects into existing environmental education activities and contexts.
The Blue Flag programme is a worldwide initiative run by independent non-profit group the Foundation for Environmental Education.
Shih's focus is environmental education, in part because he believes that Taiwan's rapid industrialization damaged its land and water.
The Kokua Hawaii Foundation supports environmental education in schools and communities throughout Hawaii.
Plans for a new environmental education centre are also being finalised to provide outdoor teaching areas and learning opportunities.
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Conference participants include Heads of State, Ministers, officials of international organizations, other key stakeholders and experts in the field of environmental education.
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Yet Ermenegildo Zegna, a manufacturer of high-quality textiles and menswear, has been involved in environmental education and conservation for more than 60 years.
Is there a way to collaborate with the Department of Education to require more environmental education experiences, both lessons and trips, in all classrooms?
"We are testing these ideas to see if it enhances environmental education in terms of recalling information and encourages people to change their behaviour, " she said.
The outcome of the Conference will be a document that outlines a new global environmental education agenda beyond 2015 to meet current needs and future challenges.
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Coordinated by the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, the event takes place each year during the first two weeks of July in coastal waters throughout the United States.
During the training session this week, the CMC facilitators will also learn about the importance of developing sustainability strategies of CMCs, social marketing, radio editing techniques and environmental education.
Irina Bokova (Director-General, UNESCO) lamented that only 1% of the world's ocean areas are protected, and urged enhancing environmental education so citizens do not take ocean sustainability for granted.
It aims at promoting the cooperation and exchange of information between the countries if southeastern Mediterranean Sea, through the promotion of environmental education and enhancement of the relationships between the environment and the society.
Built in the 1970s, the harbour has been given Blue Flag status by the Foundation for Environmental Education in recognition of both its effort to protect the local environment and its high standard of safety and service facilities.
However, since a critical UN report in 2010 organisers have produced an extensive "green" programme for Sochi 2014, including carbon neutral construction, environmental education, and a plan to reintroduce the endangered snow leopard back into the region.
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For over 20 years now, the Foundation has provided thousands of grants to schools and environmental organizations that promote hands-on environmental education such as gardens in schools, recycling programs, restoring wetlands, planting trees, and testing and monitoring water quality.
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Most of the thematic areas support the development of the tourist industry and some are related to food, languages (English, Spanish and French), sales and customer services, receptionist duties, leisure and entertainment, tourist guide activities, environmental education, community development and computer programmes, among others.
To address issues related to environment, climate change and disaster risk management, the UN will support central and local authorities in the sustainable management of the environment and natural resources across all sectors, and better environmental education and awareness - ultimately contributing to sustainable economic growth and increased quality of life.
Other challenges include the absence of a consensus on what ESD means, confusion regarding the differences between environmental education and ESD, the need to adapt legislative and policy frameworks to integrate ESD, scarcity of appropriate ESD teaching tools and research, and the need to strengthen civil society involvement in governance at multiple levels (e.g. school, community, region and country).
There has not been some massive expansion of social programs, programs that help the poor, environmental programs, education programs.
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His campaign stressed environmental issues, education reform, withdrawing troops from Iraq and repealing Bush administration tax cuts for the highest-income earners.
Environmental regulations, education and the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court could all hang in the balance of the almost evenly divided Senate.
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Brian is a principal author of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education environmental policy, Strategic Plan 2014 Environmental Focus Area, and associated tactical management plans.
For a moment the idealist in me sees cloth diapers, homemade vegetarian meals, riding bikes to school, environmental and international education and I think it would be wonderful, even fun.
Johnson and his wife, Kim, are natives of Hawaii, and for years they have been champions of conservation, environmental awareness and education both in their native state and around the world.
Social services, home care, education, environmental health, housing, planning, transport, refuse collection, catering, cleaning.
Lottery revenues, for example, are often dedicated to popular causes, such as education or environmental protection.
They also underlined the importance of promoting education in environmental ethics and of preserving indigenous knowledge, particularly to protect biodiversity against biopiracy.
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