SLE at the International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts on global efforts to achieve more sustainable ways of living. Among them, distancing measures, including school closures and restriction of gatherings, has made it challenging to foster collaborative learning and co-creation among people in physical settings such as communities, workplaces, and schools. Practitioners working on the ground are devising creative solutions to these challenges, including the online shift of communication and learning. Such responses may result in new gaps in opportunities for collaboration among people by, for example, deepening inequalities related to lack of access to technology and resources. They may also enable broader participation or the development of more practical activities with a deeper consideration of the background causes of unsafe and unsustainable living conditions. The session starts with the sharing of experiences by ground-level project implementers supported by the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme of the UN One-Planet Network in recovering and enhancing collaborative learning and co-creation during the COVID-19 crisis period, with particular focus on inclusiveness. Then the panellists, including civil society and governments working on sustainable lifestyles will discuss the following: How can civil society, governments, researchers share their efforts and experiences in recovering the opportunities for collaboration and learning and utilise them? How do the lessons inform us in reshaping our efforts for sustainable lifestyles into more inclusive and resilient ones? Please see the summary videos from our implementing partners.