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2016 Americas RCE Meeting Highlights Inter-RCE Collaboration
- 1. RCEs of the Americas The 2016 Americas Regional Meeting was hosted by RCE Curitiba, in Brazil from the 19th-21st of October. 10 RCEs from 8 different countries showcased their work from the previous year, highlighting work on education and community engagement initiatives. 9 of the RCEs in the region created action plans for their individual RCEs, specifying ties to GAP Priority Action Areas and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDGs that were prioritized for the region included: Goal #4: Quality Education (7 RCEs have this SDG listed as a priority) Goal #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (6 RCEs have this SDG listed as a priority) Goal #17: Partnerships for the Goals (6 RCEs have this SDG listed as a priority) Goal 12: Responsible Consumption & Production (5 RCEs have this SDG listed as a priority)
- 2. Inter-RCE Collaboration: RCE Grand Rapids continues to provide support to the Youth Virtual Conference, this year assisting the African Youth Network in hosting its first virtual meeting RCE Lima-Callao is coordinating the creation of a joint degree program among universities in Latin America which will highlight how traditional knowledge systems can contribute to sustainable development. RCE Bogota and RCE Western Jalisco are interested in piloting an inter-RCE exchange in the Americas, and idea discussed for sometime, which would allow university students and teachers to visit another RCE and learn about ESD and the implementation of SDGs in the host region. RCE Saskatchewan is actively working with environmental assessment in communities impacted by the development of mines in the area RCEs of the Americas
- 3. Next Steps: RCEs present drafted an Action Plan on Joint Activities for the coming year; the Plan highlights increased communication between RCEs in the region as a desired outcome An open call for the RCE Americas Regional Meeting 2016 will be held shortly; RCE Quebec has already expressed interest One idea held at this year’s Americas Conference was to hold the next regional meeting back to back with a youth workshop on sustainable development, where local youth and those visiting from other RCEs could work on a SD project to benefit the host community Mechanisms for enabling this will need to be discussed by next year’s host and the RCEs of the region Attendees expressed their desire to find a mechanism to offset their carbon emissions for next year’s conference, including tree planting in the host community or offsetting through forests in their home communities. RCEs of the Americas
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- Dear Zinaida, My apologies, I sent these points to the RCE Service Team last week with the understanding they would be shared with you. Attached is my Powerpoint and the input I have from my still limited experience with the RCE community. · Many RCEs are engaged with SCP(yay!), however very few seem to be engaged with climate change. If they are engaging, they are not communicating that among themselves or to the RCE Service center. The only exception is RCEs who seem active in ICLEI and are participating as municipal actors, not as RCEs. · Creating working groups around some of the sustainable development goals may be a good next step as the RCE community seems very interested in engaging with these; the key will be to get them use ESD as a means to engage with them · Communication seems to be a weak point for many RCE coordinators, as evidenced by the number of coordinators who failed to communicate with other RCE members within their RCEs about annual reporting duties. Will need to build more redundancy into RCE community (Hanna and I has ideas about this) · Many RCEs with secretariats at universities go inactive for months at a time during summer. I completely understand taking a month, maybe six weeks, but many of the American and European RCE coordinators would have away messages for over 3 months. This goes back to redundancy in that another person needs to serve as contact if the coordinator can only be active during the academic year. Sincerely, Philip Dear Zinaida, My apologies, I sent these points to the RCE Service Team last week with the understanding they would be shared with you. Attached is my Powerpoint and the input I have from my still limited experience with the RCE community. · Many RCEs are engaged with SCP(yay!), however very few seem to be engaged with climate change. If they are engaging, they are not communicating that among themselves or to the RCE Service center. The only exception is RCEs who seem active in ICLEI and are participating as municipal actors, not as RCEs. · Creating working groups around some of the sustainable development goals may be a good next step as the RCE community seems very interested in engaging with these; the key will be to get them use ESD as a means to engage with them · Communication seems to be a weak point for many RCE coordinators, as evidenced by the number of coordinators who failed to communicate with other RCE members within their RCEs about annual reporting duties. Will need to build more redundancy into RCE community (Hanna and I has ideas about this) · Many RCEs with secretariats at universities go inactive for months at a time during summer. I completely understand taking a month, maybe six weeks, but many of the American and European RCE coordinators would have away messages for over 3 months. This goes back to redundancy in that another person needs to serve as contact if the coordinator can only be active during the academic year. Sincerely, Philip Dear Zinaida, My apologies, I sent these points to the RCE Service Team last week with the understanding they would be shared with you. Attached is my Powerpoint and the input I have from my still limited experience with the RCE community. · Many RCEs are engaged with SCP(yay!), however very few seem to be engaged with climate change. If they are engaging, they are not communicating that among themselves or to the RCE Service center. The only exception is RCEs who seem active in ICLEI and are participating as municipal actors, not as RCEs. · Creating working groups around some of the sustainable development goals may be a good next step as the RCE community seems very interested in engaging with these; the key will be to get them use ESD as a means to engage with them · Communication seems to be a weak point for many RCE coordinators, as evidenced by the number of coordinators who failed to communicate with other RCE members within their RCEs about annual reporting duties. Will need to build more redundancy into RCE community (Hanna and I has ideas about this) · Many RCEs with secretariats at universities go inactive for months at a time during summer. I completely understand taking a month, maybe six weeks, but many of the American and European RCE coordinators would have away messages for over 3 months. This goes back to redundancy in that another person needs to serve as contact if the coordinator can only be active during the academic year. Sincerely, Philip