By Yayoi Segi-Vltchek, Chief of Section, Section of Migration, Displacement, Emergencies and Education, UNESCO, and Linda Jones, Senior Adviser, Education in Emergencies, UNICEF
From 2022, a year for hope…
On the positive side, 2022 was a turning point full of hope for children, youth and education:
- Most education systems were on a path to recovery – and seemed to be learning many lessons – from the COVID-19 pandemic. Children themselves are putting in huge efforts to catching-up on all the learning they've missed.
- The Transforming Education Summit (TES), organized during the UN General Assembly in September 2022, was a unique opportunity to renew commitments to action in favour of education in crisis situations and to launch a new Greening Education Partnership. A lot more is to come as these commitments take shape in advance of the first progress report in 2025 and feed into the achievement of the SDG 4-Education 2030 Agenda.
- COP 27 witnessed timid, yet tangible efforts to implement calls initiated at COP 26 to speed up the introduction of climate change education in all countries, at all levels. The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) summarized COP 27 in a blog, highlighting synergies between education and climate finance among five key possible takeaways.
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