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Education and learning are pivotal to the governance and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), serving as transformative forces that influence all 17 goals. SDG 4 focuses on quality education, aiming to improve educational standards and generate positive effects on income generation, job growth, inequality reduction and life opportunities globally. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), highlighted in Target 4.7, promotes interdisciplinary approaches, critical thinking and synergies among different SDGs, actors and policies. Despite challenges like limited awareness, resource constraints and educational models that overlook local contexts and power asymmetries, ESD offers opportunities to synergistically advance SDG implementation. By acting as a shared language among educational institutions, ESD facilitates idea exchange and community-led solutions. Incorporating decolonial and pluriversal perspectives can deconstruct dominant educational paradigms and empower marginalized communities, advocating for equitable, inclusive and sustainable education that transform the teaching-learning process.