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Issues around sustainable development are central to Nepal’s progress and wellbeing as a developing nation. After a long period of being largely isolated from the rest of the world, Nepal has cautiously embraced globalisation and, with flooding threats from the effects of global warming on the Himalayas, is on the front line of climate change. Nepal committed itself to the Incheon Declaration of the World Education Forum and its Universal Declaration on Education by 2030 agenda.
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Brett, P., Gurung, G., Shah, R., Yogi, K.K., Dhungana, J. (2023). Enacting the Sustainable Development Goals in Nepalese Schools and Teacher Education. In: Beasy, K., Smith, C., Watson, J. (eds) Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Education for Sustainability, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3802-5_10
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