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IUCN Communication and Education Commission Broadens Scope

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Communication and Education Commission (CEC) has broadened its scope from promoting environmental education and communication to integrating learning processes that foster change into other IUCN projects and the wider conservation community. The CEC is one of six volunteer expert commissions comprising 10,000 international experts that advise the IUCN, the world’s largest conservation organisation with 1,000 organisational and governmental members, in its mission to ‘assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.’ CEC is made up of about 600 invited active environmental education and communication experts from around the world who communicate through an electronic newsletter and a web portal and are governed by a steering committee and organised regionally. Since he became chair in 2005, Keith Wheeler of the United States has pushed for a more fundamental and integrative role for the CEC. In previous years the CEC has served as an international networking body for environmental education and communications professionals and as a source of marketing and promotional expertise for IUCN. The current workplan highlights strategic communication, education for sustainable development and a world conservation learning network, in which universities offer short courses for resource management professionals. Like many education and communication components of largely science and policy organisations, CEC has had to struggle internally to promote the value of its expertise. The new strategy attempts to integrate communication and education skills, along with skills for organisational development and social learning, into the mainstream of the organisation’s mission in order to make it more effective. ESD HAPPENINGS Reports