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UNESCO to partner with UNIQLO to advance clean oceans in Asia
UNESCO and Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., the parent company of UNIQLO, have agreed to partner on a project supporting ocean-related education initiatives for children and young people in Asia.
The new project, to be launched in early 2024, will aim to build healthy relationships with the ocean through education for sustainable development (ESD) to better enable children and young people in the region to become active 鈥榗hange agents鈥 of environmental conservation, and even aspire towards becoming future leaders and innovators of sustainable development. In doing so, UNESCO will make full use of its capacity to develop and apply ocean science for sustainability and knowledge systems and products in its extended network and designated sites (ASPnet Schools, Biosphere Reserves, Global Geoparks, World Heritage sites, and so forth) which will also operate as ESD educational hubs.
The centerpiece of UNIQLO鈥檚 support will be a new sustainability collection to be launched under the company鈥檚 campaign, which will support UNESCO activities to reduce marine debris. For every purchase of qualifying products, UNIQLO鈥檚 Tokyo-based parent company, Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., will donate US$1 to UNESCO鈥攗p to a total donation of US$1.5 million鈥攖o support regional initiatives to reduce ocean garbage, including educational programmes aimed at raising awareness among the public of critically important marine debris issues.
Achieving a sustainable ocean depends on all of us doing our part. We are grateful for the exemplary role which UNIQLO is playing by joining hands with UNESCO in the advancement of ocean cleanup, especially during the current UN Ocean Decade (2021-2030), and for motivating all environmental stakeholders in working together towards 'the ocean we need for the future we want' in Asia!
For more information:
For more information on UNIQLO's campaign, visit .
To learn more about UNESCO鈥檚 initiatives in education for sustainable development (ESD)
To learn more about UNESCO鈥檚 Associated Schools Network (ASPnet)
For further information on this collaboration, kindly contact: eo.bgk(at)unesco.org
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