United
Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited Green School Bali to speak with
students and sign an agreement to promote environmentally aware education
throughout Indonesia.
The
UN Office for REDD+ Coordination in Indonesia (UN ORCID), the Republic of
Indonesia and Green School Bali signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create
Green Schools for Sustainable Development. The aim is to educate one million
Green Youth Ambassadors across Indonesia by 2017.
Indonesia
is one of the world’s largest carbon emitters, in large measure due to
deforestation. REDD stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
Degradation.
Green
School Bali is build almost entirely out of bamboo, a fast-growing grass that
sequesters carbon as it grows, can be harvested frequently once mature, and
provides very strong (and bio-degradable) building material. In 2012, the Washington,
DC-based Center for Green Schools awarded Green School Bali its Greenest School on Earth Award.
“This Green School is an
outstanding proof of concept,” H.E. Mr. Heru Prasetyo, Head of the Indonesian
National REDD+ Agency (BP REDD+) said, as quoted in a UN ORCID press release. “The
next step is to achieve proof of scale. By 2017, we aim to have one million
‘green youth ambassadors’ in Indonesia”. Supporting Green Schools and
strengthening environmentally sensitive school curricula, is one of the ten
imperative actions of the National REDD+ Agency in 2014.
Read the UN ORCID press release for more official info.
Photo by Carol Da Riva
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