{"id":2492,"date":"2025-12-28T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dealshubusa.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:50:47","slug":"get-to-know-the-greening-curriculum-indicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dealshubusa.com\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":"Get to know the greening curriculum indicator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Education systems worldwide are adapting to prepare younger generations for tackling the environmental and climate challenges that increasingly shape our future. A new indicator has been developed and absorbed into the SDG global indicator 4.7.1, which measures how countries are integrating \u2018green\u2019 content into their curricula. This blog explains how this greening curriculum indicator was prepared and why it is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/world-education-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3677758087_4d2e5f4e7c_k.jpg?fit=1024%2C686&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><small>DFID \/ Pippa Ranger<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get to know the greening curriculum indicator, part of SDG global indicator 4.7.1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>14 November 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By:\u00a0Manos Antoninis, Aaron Benavot and Marcia McKenzie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>By Manos Antoninis, GEM Report, Aaron Benavot, University at Albany-SUNY; and Marcia McKenzie, University of Melbourne<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education systems worldwide are adapting to prepare younger generations for tackling the environmental and climate challenges that increasingly shape our future. A new indicator has been developed and absorbed into the SDG global indicator 4.7.1, which measures how countries are integrating \u2018green\u2019 content into their curricula. This blog explains how this greening curriculum indicator was prepared and why it is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How did this indicator come about?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The greening curriculum indicator seeks to evaluate how thoroughly environmental themes are woven into primary and secondary education. It is based on the understanding that concepts related to sustainability, environment, climate change and biodiversity should influence teaching and learning processes comprehensively, rather than exist as a separate subject. It connects curriculum content to tangible outcomes such as student knowledge and country fulfilment of SDG and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/transforming-education-summit\">UN Transforming Education Summit<\/a>&nbsp;in 2022, the SDG 4 High Level Steering Committee decided to add new indicators to measure the summit\u2019s outcomes, including on \u2018greening education\u2019 as reflected in the work of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/greening-education-partnership-getting-every-learner-climate-ready\">Greening Education Partnership<\/a>. It requested the GEM Report and UIS to coordinate the efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up to that point, SDG global indicator 4.7 on sustainable development had one indicator measuring. the \u2018Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment, which had been measured with self-reported country data,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/publication\/issn\/2755-029X\">raising questions of validity and reliability.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A proposal for an indicator that would offer an objective source of information for one dimension (sustainable development) and one intervention (curriculum) of SDG global indicator 4.7.1 was constructed by the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (<a href=\"https:\/\/mecce.ca\/\">MECCE<\/a>) Project and the GEM Report in coordination with UNESCO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>How the greening curriculum indicator fits into the SDG global indicator 4.7.1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/world-education-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-indicator-1.png?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/world-education-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-indicator-1.png?resize=1041%2C329&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38683\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal was first submitted to the Education Data and Statistics Commission (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uis.unesco.org\/en\/data-governance\/edsc\">EDSC<\/a>) in July 2024 and EDSC members&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tcg.uis.unesco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/07\/Decisions_2024.07.19_EN.pdf\">approved<\/a>&nbsp;the proposal. Subsequently, it was presented to the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) in October, 2024, which decided to endorse it as part of indicator 4.7.1 in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs\/iaeg-sdgs\/2025-comprehensive-review\">2025 Comprehensive Review,<\/a>&nbsp;the second and final review of the SDG monitoring framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What does the indicator measure?<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education systems worldwide are adapting to prepare younger generations for tackling the environmental and climate challenges that increasingly shape our future. A new indicator has been developed and absorbed into the SDG global indicator 4.7.1, which measures how countries are integrating \u2018green\u2019 content into their curricula. 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