Patrick Paul Walsh is the Vice President of Education and Director of the SDG Academy at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) presided by Jeffrey Sachs.
He is on secondment from University College Dublin where he remains a Full Professor of International Development Studies and Director of the UCD M.Sc. in Sustainable Development in partnership with the SDG Academy.
In this inspiring talk, he shares with us his personal journey towards sustainability, explains what the SDG Academy does in practice and what our priorities should be in terms of climate education action, praising the participatory approach of communities of practice that bring all the players together around a table to promote change and rightly taking us back to school: "We need to be consistent, cooperate and make things as simple as possible".
Questions:
01:40 Could you tell us about your career in the field of ESD, which led you to the position of Director of SDSN at the SDG Academy?
11:25 What are the SDG Academy's initiatives and their main results?
18:05 What challenges do you face in the course of your activities, and what do you think are the priorities on which we should be investing time and resources in terms of ESD?
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