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A new World Bank report, Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters, looks at the impact of extreme natural disasters and climate change on global poverty. The report, through new research, warns that the combined human and economic impacts of extreme weather on poverty are far more devastating than previously understood. With the climate summit, COP22, underway, the report’s findings underscore the urgency for climate-smart policies that protect the most vulnerable. Media are invited to join a press conference for the launch of Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters, a joint World Bank/Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) report. Speaker:John Roome, Senior Director for Climate Change, World BankStephane Hallegatte, Lead Economist and lead author of the report, GFDRR/World Bank

Press conference to launch ‘PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth’ by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, UNESCOFacilitator: Nick Nuttall, Spokesperson, United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Speakers:Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCOMr Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdallah, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Kingdom of MoroccoManos Antoninis, Senior Policy Analyst, GEM Report, UNESCOTariq Al Olaimy, National Coordinator for the Arab Youth Climate Movement The press conference will launch a new publication at the COP 22 by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report called: PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth. This publication is taken from the full 2016 GEM Report, Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all. It shows how education can help shift people’s behaviour to a more sustainable way of living. Curricula could better support this change: while in the majority of countries, education is the best indicator of climate change awareness, curricula in half the countries of the world fail to contain clear mention of climate change or environmental sustainability.PLANET shows that lifelong learning in the workplace and in communities has a crucial role to play in changing attitudes and finding new solutions to environmental problems as many of today’s adults were educated before climate change became an issue.