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The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development from 2005 to 2014 has mobilized a wide range of commitment in Bonn. The city has received several awards as a Decade City.
Helmut Wiesner, Head of the Environment Department, and Heike Hückesfeld, Director of Haus der Natur, are delighted to receive ESD certification in March 2023.
The City of Bonn and many institutions and initiatives in the city are also actively involved in the current Global Action Program that followed the Decade. The aim of the Global Action Program is to anchor the principle of sustainability in people's minds and, above all, permanently in the structures of the educational landscape.
In November 2018, the city of Bonn was once again recognized as a municipality for its commitment to this structural anchoring of ESD. In March 2023, the Haus der Natur in Bonn received the certification "Institution for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)".
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) refers to educational programs that enable people to understand the impact of their own actions on the world and to make responsible decisions. This educational concept is an essential tool for implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). True to the motto of the United Nations in Bonn "Shaping a sustainable future", ESD is therefore also firmly anchored in Bonn's sustainability strategy.
The Office for International Affairs and Global Sustainability coordinates the city-wide ESD work and implements measures mainly in the context of international project partnerships, development education and public relations work and local SDG work.
The most important ESD actors in the city include
the Office for Local Sustainability and the House of Nature in the Office for the Environment and Urban Greenery
the Integration Staff Unit/Communal Integration Center,
the Adult Education Center.
All municipal actors cooperate with groups and activists from civil society and the general public.
Examples of education and sustainable development are
annual UN Day in October
the BONNi & Bo climate driving license, which the Bonn Climate Ambassadors Foundation, chaired by the Mayor of Bonn, offers to third-grade primary school classes
the "Bonn SDG Days", which use ESD methods to raise awareness of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
the establishment of a sustainable management system in 50 Bonn hotels as part of the Sustainable Bonn project, which has also been implemented in part in Bonn's partner cities Chengdu and Bukhara,
numerous fair trade offers by the city's fair trade coordinator in cooperation with the fair trade steering group (including information events throughout the year, a comprehensive fair week program with an ESD approach, including Rundum Fair - the public fair breakfast with a fair fashion show on Bonn's Münsterplatz)
Bimonthly Agenda newsletter with dates and information on sustainability
"Learning sustainability" school newsletter for teachers and educators
Annual "climate trip" to climate protection locations in Bonn with pupils
Regular climate tours by bike to climate protection locations in Bonn
A wide range of methods and content with an ESD approach at the Adult Education Center
numerous nature experience offers at the Haus der Natur, which is a certified Education for Sustainable Development facility
the biodiversity trail on the Waldau near the Haus der Natur, which was awarded the title of Decade Project in 2008 and has been successively expanded since then
