Equity and Inclusion: The Bedrock to Transform Our World toward Agenda 2030 and Beyond RCE Greater Portland Americas Regional RCE Meeting 2018 24-27 October, 2018, Posadas, Argentina

1. 7th Americas RCE meeting:
ESD, Conservation and Climate
Change in the 2030 Agenda
Neeraja Havaligi
GPSEN, Portland, OR. USA

2. Global Action Programme on Education
for Sustainable Development
Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD) has identified five priority action areas to
advance the ESD agenda.
1. Priority Action Area1: Advancing Policy
2. Priority Action Area 2: Transforming learning and training
environments
3. Priority Action Area 3: Building capacities of educators and
trainers
4. Priority Action Area 4: Empowering and mobilizing youth
5. Priority Action Area 5: Accelerating sustainable solutions at
local level

3. Equity and Inclusion:
The bedrock to transform our
world toward Agenda 2030 and
beyond

4. SDG Paper, 2018.
 “With Inclusion and Equity, can the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) Flower within the
Planetary Boundaries?” by Neeraja Havaligi. May
2018.
 http://www.akamaiuniversity.us/PJST19_1_389.pdf
 This research paper relates to all the 17 SDGs, all the
ecosystems and the global efforts to achieve them
within the planetary boundaries.

5. Work in progress
 Neeraja Havaligi, ED, Greater Portland Sustainability
Education Network (GPSEN)
 Le Roy Patton, Advisor, Greater Portland
Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN)

9. Principle 10 of the Rio
Declaration of 1992
recognizes access to
environment information,
public participation in
decision-making and access
to justice on environmental
matters. These ‘access
rights’ remain as relevant
today as they were decades
ago.
Source: UNEP

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28. www.gpsen.org