Declarations on higher education and sustainable development

Declaration name Year Signaturies Link to declaration text

Stockholm Declaration 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?Docume

ntID=97&ArticleID=1503

Talloires Declaration 1990 Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires.html

Halifax Declaration 1991 International Association of Universities (IAU), UN University, Association of http://www.iisd.org/educate/declarat/halifax.htm
Universities and Colleges of Canada

Agenda 21: Chapter 36 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (“Rio”) http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/a21-36.htm

Swansea Declaration 1993 Association of Commonwealth Universities http://www.iisd.org/educate/declarat/swansea.htm

Kyoto Declaration 1993 International Association of Universities (IAU) http://www.unesco.org/iau/sd/sd_dkyoto.html

Copernicus Charter 1994 Association of European Universities (CRE) http://www.iisd.org/educate/declarat/coper.htm

Thessaloniki Declaration 1997 UNESCO Conference on Environment and Public Awareness for Sustainability http://www.mio-ecsde.org/old/Thess/declar_en.htm

World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty- 1998 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/wche/declaration_eng.
first Century and Framework for Priority Action for htm#world%20declaration
Change and Development in Higher Education

Handvest Duurzaam HBO 1999 Dutch Association of Universities of Professional Education (HBO-Raad)

Lüneburg Declaration 2001 GHESP partners (International Association of Universities, University Leaders for a http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/files/37585/11038209883Lun
Sustainable Future, COPERNICUS CAMPUS, and UNESCO) eburgDeclaration.pdf/LuneburgDeclaration.pdf

Joint Declaration on Higher Education and the General 2001 Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), American Council on http://www.aucc.ca/_pdf/english/statements/2001/gats_10_25_e.p
Agreement on Trade in Services Education (ACE), European University Association (EUA), Council for Higher df
Education Accreditation (CHEA), and 60 recognized institutional and programmatic
accreditors in the United States.
Declaration of Barcelona 2004 Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) 2004 conference scientific http://eesd08.tugraz.at/pics/declaration_of_barcelona_english.pdf
committee

The Graz declaration 2005 COPERNICUS-CAMPUS, the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, the Technical http://www.uni-graz.at/sustainability/Graz_Declaration.pdf
University Graz, oikos International

Declaration on the Responsibility of Higher Education for 2006 Council of Europe Global Network for Higher Education and Democratic Culture http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/international-
a Democratic Culture - Citizenship, Human Rights and consortium/declaration.html
Sustainability

Lucerne Declaration on Geographical Education for 2007 The International Geographical Union (IGU) and Commission on Geographical http://www.igu-
Sustainable Development Education cge.luzern.phz.ch/seiten/dokumente/plu_igu_cge_ludeclaration_su
stdev.pdf

Charter for an Alliance of French Universities in 2008 Conférence des Présidents d’Universités http://www.cpu.fr/fileadmin/fichiers/actu/Charte_DD_3_juillet_2008.
Fostering Sustainable Development pdf