ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals 4 in the year 2020, ten years before this 2030 deadline. It focuses on Environmental Education in particular, and its evolution into Education for Sustainable Development. The chapter looks at some examples of ESD implementation in various parts of the world and will make recommendations as to how its implementation, both globally and nationally, may be strengthened. Environmental education in the twentieth century appears to have been first conceptualized in 1969 by a group of scholars in the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan. The concept of sustainable development came to the forefront in 1987 with the World Commission on Environment and Development’s Report entitled Our Common Future, commonly known as “The Brundtland Report.”.
