On 18 September 2020, the UN CC:Learn community celebrated the issuance of 100,000 certificates of course completion on our e-learning platform - a milestone for climate literacy worldwide. On this occasion, an event was held with high-level representatives from the United Nations, including the Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Mr. Ovais Sarmad, the Deputy Secretary-General of WMO,  Ms. Elena Manaenkova, the Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Nikhil Seth, as well as Ms. Janine Kuriger, Head of Division at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Mr. Angus Mackay, Head of the UN CC:Learn Secretariat, Mr. Vincens Cótê and Ms. Cristina Rekakavas, respectively former and current coordinator of the UN CC:Learn programme.

As if this was not enough, we also had the attendance of more than 1,000 alumni from all over the world who joined via Zoom and Youtube. To close this celebration with a golden key, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, congratulated the UN CC:Learn Partnership and its community for this accomplishment. In his message, he also challenged our community to leverage climate literacy around the world to enable individuals, organizations, and societies to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

The task is now to scale up this effort and to build a global movement that can help us fulfill the promise of the Paris Agreement."

Check out the full message sent by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.