United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/254
Distr.: General
21 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 87 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/532/Add.1)]
57/254. United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling chapter 36 of Agenda 21, on promoting education, public awareness
and training, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, 1
Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goal of achieving
universal primary education, in particular that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys
and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling,
Appreciating the contribution made by the Commission on Sustainable
Development to the issue of education for sustainable development since the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
Welcoming the fact that the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) confirmed the
importance of education for sustainable development and recommended that the
General Assembly consider adopting a decade of education for sustainable
development starting in 2005, 2
Emphasizing that education is an indispensable element for achieving
sustainable development,
1.
Decides to proclaim the ten-year period beginning on 1 January 2005 the
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development;
2.
Designates the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization as the lead agency for the promotion of the Decade, and requests it to
develop a draft international implementation scheme, clarifying its relationship with
the existing educational processes, in particular the Dakar Framework for Action
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1
See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro,
3–14 June 1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions
adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
2
See Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolution 2, annex.
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