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👇 This is a big milestone in Sphere's #NatureBasedSolutions journey. 🌿 The term #NbS was coined by the World Bank in 2008. They are defined by IUCN as actions which 'leverage nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future'. 🎓 Sphere's NbS niche is in partnering with IUCN, IFRC and others to provide practical NbS guidance for humanitarians (see our 2023 NbS guide: https://lnkd.in/e8ZdTbKU) - which is now accompanied by this self-paced online course (available from our LMS: https://lnkd.in/eQVRxxjz).

☘️Good news from Sphere Standards ☘️ Sphere's new Nature-based Solutions E-Learning is live now! If you are working on #NbS programming or planning to do so, this e-learning course might for you #NaturebasedSolutions #Sphere #protectnature #climateresilience 👇👇

How can humanitarians protect and restore the environment while helping people in need? 🌍 💡The first of its kind to be tailored specifically to the humanitarian sector, #Sphere’s new Nature-based Solutions E-Learning, developed in partnership with #RedR, facilitates learning on exactly this question.

Why Education Fails Learners (4) Can We Green Our Learning? Or rather, why we cannot green our learning, nor save the planet with our current education systems https://lnkd.in/eu2e4g9G Part of 11 Days of Heutagogy project

Exciting Virtual Learning Opportunity 📣📣 Join the International School on Climate Mobilities Virtual Learning Courses 2024 (financial assistance available): Apply!! Application Deadline: 05 April 2024 In the face of escalating climate change, theInternational School on Climate Mobilities (ISCM)stands as a beacon of interdisciplinary education and collaboration. This institution is dedicated to empowering scholars, researchers, and practitioners with the critical tools necessary to address the complexities of climate-induced displacement. By fostering a space for co-knowledge production across various disciplines. Course Highlights: The ISCM curriculum spans six weeks, covering a range of topics: 🌟 Multiple and complex drivers and agency in climate-related (im)mobilities Environmental (im)mobilities, health, food, and livelihood security 🌟 Climate justice: unpacking coloniality, gender, race, class, indigeneity, and climate-related displacement 🌟 Protection politics: climate mobility, human rights, and refugee law From structural violence to ‘resource wars’: the climate change, conflict, and displacement nexus 🌟 Building resilience in the context of environmental (im)mobilities: mitigating risks, enhancing adaptive capacity, and addressing loss and damage See more details herehttps://lnkd.in/dAPruHJ4 #financialsupport #fundedcourses #onlinelearning #virtualtraining #GlobalOpportunities #globalsouthopportunities #gso #applyhere

Indigenous knowledge refers to the unique set of understandings, skills, and philosophies developed by local communities through centuries of direct interaction with their environment. Applying these wisdom practices to the concept of SDG methodology can provide profound insights and practical approaches to sustainability. Traditional indigenous education is inherently connected with the natural world. Learning often takes place outdoors and cultivates a deep appreciation for Nature and encourages students to see themselves as part of a larger ecosystem. Usha Iyer ✍️ https://newsth.live/ZxgVYS

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Teach4SDGs Workshop series an Eyeopener. Hope you know that we learn everyday and are exposed to new thoughts and Ideas. Going through the Teach4SDGs training today I come to know that there is a lot of ill health that are as a result of our buildings. We we're able to look into Green Economy and Sustainable Construction. To every building people are living in our there, it must satisfy the need of the people which varies from the scenic view, for drainage, consideration etc. I must make sure that whatever I want to build must have the interest of the people. Green economy is the managing of scarce resources to manage the future. It is significantly reducing environmental risks. It's focus is on Socio political crisis, Economic crisis and Ecological crisis. I also understand the difference between Equity and Equality. Equality have to do with generalization, making sure everyone is reached. But equity finds out the specific needs of the Individuals and try to meet up to there individual problem. Therefore for sustainable development every should be considered differently. When you generalized, there will still be people whose needs needed more attention. And it's through Equity you can attend to them all. I believe that Green building sustainability is possible and that it begins with me. Let me stop so far, it was really and impactful series. I'm grateful to the @AIIDEV and @Teach4SDGs. #iLearn #sdgsambassdor #teach4sdgs #AIIDEVAfrica #Teach4SDGSImpactful

Join U-Learn Uganda for the online launch of the yearly U-Learn research piece: Energy Practices in Ugandan Settlements Amid Environmental Challenges: 📅Thursday 25th 2024 April from 9.30 to 11AM EAT ➡️Discover the findings of the Energy Practices in Ugandan Settlements Amid Environmental Challenges report. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dHbGXAHz 🔍 This assessment, conducted by IMPACT Initiatives under the U-Learn consortium, sheds light on the energy consumption behaviours within Ugandan settlements amidst environmental challenges. The report aims to inform both humanitarian and development actors in the refugee response about the barriers and enablers of behaviour change concerning energy consumption, in the face of environmental degradation and climate change adaptation. #HumanitarianEnergy

Compass Education: A global movement of educators for a sustainable world. Join the movement! More info in compasseducation.org 🧭 #CompassEducation #ProfessionalDevelopment #SustainabilityEducation #SystemsThinking