The Mayor of Baalbeck, General Hussein Lakis, was invited by the UNESCO to participate in the Regional Conference on "Education for Sustainable Living in Cities and the Arab Region" aiming to implement a program of education for sustainable development in the targeted cities, which was held in Aswan, Egypt, from March 5 till March 7, 2018.
The conference included 5 working sessions in addition to a closing session.
The five sessions focused on the following topics:
1- Sustainable local solutions to respect and
protect the planet.
2- The role of the people in finding
sustainable local solutions to integrate
everyone and assure their access to
sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles.
3- Prosperity and well-being = Sustainable
local solutions to drive societies to
economic and sustainable growth.
4- Peace = sustainable local solutions to living
in peaceful, diverse and harmonious
societies, free from fear and violence.
5- Partnerships and sustainable and l