From 16 to 18 December 2015, the 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning will bring together policy-makers, development partners, and representatives from education and training institutions, NGOs and business associations to identify opportunities for improving green economy learning. The transition towards inclusive green economies, as reiterated through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires national education and training systems to respond to new and changing skills needs. Specifically, changes in the labour market, the development of new technologies and practices, and developments in existing occupations will challenge policy-makers, institutions and other stakeholders to rethink about education post-2015.

Organized by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) together with UNESCO-UNEVOC, the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the forum aims to:

• Promote information exchange, experience sharing and coordination for green economy learning;
• Review national approaches in order to develop a strategic approach to green economy learning;
• Engage learning institutions by integrating green economy concepts in a sustainable self-standing curriculum; and
• Institute a community of practice of green economy learning professionals and institutions.

Through our involvement in the Forum, UNESCO-UNEVOC will seek to explore entry points for green economy learning in TVET institutions consistent with UNEVOC’s Greening TVET agenda. UNESCO-UNEVOC will also look at opportunities to converge actions among learning institution networks.

The forum will take place at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France. For more information, please consult the following links:

• Background
• Draft agenda
• Target audience
• Partners