Unesco’s director-general, the Crown Prince of Japan and Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco — the President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment will open the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan on November 10, 2014.

The conference will mark the end of the UN Decade of ESD (2005-2014) will create a roadmap to launch the Global Action Programme (GAP), a follow-up to the decade that will propose new goals and objectives, priority action areas and strategies.

Under the banner “Learning Today for a Sustainable Future”, more than 1,000 participants from over 100 countries are expected to attend, including representatives of UNESCO Member States, NGOs, academia, the private sector, individual experts, youth and UN agencies. So far, 56 ministers and 17 vice-ministers, mainly representing ministries of education, have confirmed their attendance.

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