UAE among top 5 countries in sustainability education — expert

“The UAE is among the top five countries to take a leadership role in education for sustainable development with a view to creating sustainability citizens,” said Ann Finlayson, former UK Commissioner for Education for the Sustainable Development Commission. The other four countries are Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Finlayson, who represented the UK in the mid-Decade World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development in Bonn in 2009, added the UAE can take its experience at the beginning of the sustainability education journey to the world stage in November at the Unesco World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development-Learning Today for a Sustainable Future to be held in Tokyo on the occasion of the end of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD.)