At their eighth meeting, the Parties agreed to focus their
efforts on a few key activities to advance the programme of work
for CEPA. Education was one of these elements. Parties agreed
that they would: “Taking into account the importance of both
formal and informal education, initiate programmes to strengthen
formal and informal education on biodiversity,” - Ensure that
these programmes are informed by and linked with the UNESCO
Decade of Education for Sustainable Development - Identify best
practices in biodiversity education, including those initiated
by indigenous and local communities, and seek to disseminate
these for further adoption. - Education on biodiversity should
seek to communicate, in language and methods suitable to a
variety of age groups and communities: - Biological Diversity
and its role in sustaining human well-being. - The importance of
the interlinkage between conservation, sustainable use and
equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of biological
resources. - Ways that people can