TL;DR

• 2024 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the 1.5°C global warming threshold

• Climate change impacts are intensifying globally: heatwaves, floods, droughts, and biodiversity loss

• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is key to climate action and resilience

• ESD empowers individuals with green skills and practical tools for change

• Businesses can drive impact by embedding sustainability training and ESG practices

• ESD supports multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including climate action, responsible consumption, and quality education

• Everyone has a role to play — from educators and students to business leaders

Introduction: A Milestone We Didn’t Particularly Want to Hit

Congratulations, Earth, you’ve done it again. Another record-breaking year! 2024 has claimed the title of the hottest year on record, tipping over the critical 1.5°C global temperature threshold. While this may sound like the Earth’s equivalent of a fe...

Sustainable development is key to the continued survival of humans and the planet as we know it. Without sustainability, there will be no future generations to meet nor teach.

Educators all over the world hold the enormous responsibility to educate our future world leaders, business owners and civil society.

If all educators begin to transfer sustainability awareness and teach green skills, we can inspire collective action on a much larger scale, forming tomorrow’s leaders to ensure we can achieve sustainable development

What are Sustainable Teaching Practices?

In today’s world, we are constantly bombarded with huge amounts of information at a pace never seen before. This requires constant development, adaptation, and analysis of the world around us and our place within it.

Sustainable practices enhance the quality of life for all, addressing issues like health, education, and equal opportunity. Pollution and poor water &air quality are all threats to human health.

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Nobody knows the struggling state of the natural world better than today’s younger generations. Since the industrial revolution, the scale and intensity of human impact on the global climate has been increasing exponentially. But I am not here to go on and on about how we (and I mean a collective, species-level ‘we’) have messed up. No, in fact I am here to shed some light on how we can prepare the next generation of environmentalists to undo the deeds of our fossil-fuel loving predecessors.

What is Education for Sustainable Development?

Remember when the biggest lesson you learned in school was how to dodge a dodgeball? Well, times have changed. Today, schools are where the green magic begins. Teaching kids about sustainability isn’t just about recycling paper or turning off the lights (seriously though, turn off the lights!). It’s about creating little green-leaders who grow up to be, well… big green-leaders. This is where Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) comes in.

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