Key EfS Links

National EfS Strategies and Action Plans

Australia (including States and Territories)

Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources (DEH): National Action Plan for Environmental Education

This website provides information about Australia's National Action Plan for Environmental Education based on recommendations made in the discussion paper: Today Shapes Tomorrow: an Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future.

(2000) Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future: National Action Plan.

Australia NSW Environmental Planning Authority

This NSW government department generates action on environmental education for sustainability guided by a Council for EE.

(2005) Learning for Sustainability: NSW Environmental Education Plan 2006-2009 Consultation Draft. NSW Council for Environmental Education.

(2002) Learning for Sustainability: NSW Environmental Education Plan 2002-2005, Sydney, NSW Council for Environmental Education.

Australia Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment

(2005) Learning to Live Sustainably – Victoria's approach to learning-based change for environmental sustainability. Draft - September 2005

Western Australia Department of Environment - Environmental Education

2004, the Western Australian Government released its Environmental Education Strategy and Action Plan. A six-member Environmental Education Advisory Committee (EEAC) coordinates the implementation of the strategy, and undertook an audit of existing environmental education resources and providers and produced a Directory.

(2004) Environmental Education Strategy and Action Plan. Perth: Department of Environment.

Canada

Council of Ministers of Education, Canada

Education for Sustainability: The Status of Sustainable Development in Canada. Ontario: Government of Canada

Government of Canada

(2002) A Framework for Environmental Learning and Sustainability in Canada, Ontario: Government of Canada

China

WWF

(2003) 'National Environment Education Guidelines: Embedding Education for Sustainability within China's National Education System' Gift to the Earth #94, 2 November 2003.

Finland

Ministry of Education

Loukola, M-L (2001) Education for sustainable development in Finland. Finland

Jamaica

National Environmental Education Committee

Set up by the National Environmental Protection Agency, this committee led the process to develop The National Environmental Education Action Plan for Sustainable Development, Jamacia in 1998.

Poland

Ministry of the Environment

In 2001 Poland produced Through Education to Sustainable Development: A national environmental education strategy.

Netherlands

Government of the Netherlands

Several government departments work together on the strategy for education for sustainable development, with the process led by the Ministerie van LNV. The following documents in English relate to the strategies for ESD.

(2002) Working on Confidence: A matter of engagement Strategic agreement for CDA, LPF, VVD coalition Cabinet 3 July 2002.

(2004) Learning for Sustainable Development: from Margin to the Mainstream: Dutch National Program 2004-2007. Bezuidenhoutsewg: Ministerie van LNV, The Government of The Netherlands.

New Zealand

Ministry of the Environment

(1998) Learning to Care for Our Environment: Me Ako ki te Tiaki Taioi: A National Strategy for Environmental Education, Wellington

NZ Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

(2002) Creating our future: Sustainable Development for New Zealand. Wellington June 2002

(2004) See Change: Learning and Education for sustainability. Wellington PCE

Spain

Ministry of Environment

Secretaria General de Medio Ambiente, España (1999) Libro Blanco de la Educación Ambiental en España. Madrid: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Centro de Pulicaciones.

UK Sustainable Development: The Government's Approach - delivering UK sustainable development together: Securing the Future – UK Government sustainable development strategy

The UK Government launched its new strategy for sustainable development, Securing The Future, in conjunction with a Strategic Framework on 7 March, 2005.

UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES): Sustainable Development

This website provides information on DfES actions for contributing to sustainable development in education.

USA Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action

The Agenda prepared under the Clinton administration lays out a number of recommendations as to how we can build concepts of sustainability into our educational programs. Interwoven with these recommendations are specific initiatives and opportunities for interested individuals from all sectors to become partners, leaders, or participants in activities that educate for sustainability. The recommendations provide a framework for a flexible strategy and a toolbox of ideas, which can be tailored to educational strategies reflective of individual and community needs

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