One Planet Network - Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Contributor Cohort

Published on February 4, 2022

The Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (SLE) Contributor Cohort is part of the One Planet Network's Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme. The cohort brings together outstanding individuals from around the world to further SLE research, networks, and initiatives. The Cohort is supported by the coordinating team: Dwayne Appleby (from the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies), Max Serpa and Vanessa Timmer (both from OneEarth), Aina Eriksson, Ebba Eriksson, and Carolina Yang (all from the Stockholm Environment Institute), and Laura Astudillo Mesías (from the United Nations Environment Programme).

The Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme aims to foster the uptake of sustainable lifestyles as the common norm. Through a global network of experts, practitioners and learners the SLE programme develops tools and resources that allow policy makers, businesses and civil society to build sustainable systems of living. Through the application of these resources and the uptake of sustainable lifestyles the SLE programme aims to address global challenges such as biodiversity conservation, resource efficiency, climate change mitigation, poverty reduction and social well-being.

From 2021 - 2022, the Cohort's focus is to:

1) Report to the One Planet Network on SLE activities in collaboration with the SLE Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee to further our collective understanding of SLE initiatives taking place internationally. The One Planet Network brings together all of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee (MAC) members' efforts once a year (in February) and reports their initiatives to the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). In addition, national focal points may also select national policies that are relevant to official reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 12, 1.1).

2) Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme identifies SLE actors from around the world and connects them with meaningful resources, opportunities, and networks. This network based approach connects people and groups. SLE actors are aligned by common areas of focus, goals, and impact scope. They share a common agenda, promote mutually reinforcing activities, are in continuous communication, and have backbone support. In this way, the community of actors are best equipped to continue their mission and expand beyond in house capabilities. The online summit that's planned will be a way to offer this networking, as well as workshops on skills related to SLE work as an offering to the international SLE community.

Link to the contributor cohort profiles can be found here:

https://www.oneearthweb.org/opn-cohort.html

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QqAproMNhbOZGialSLBRzf1vgA5bx8JU?usp=sharing