Environmental sustainability
The climate emergency and environmental issues require a drastic social change, including individual and collective changes to our mentality, behaviour and lifestyle. Education is a crucial tool for ensuring that this pressing sustainable development of environment can be realised to avoid a climate catastrophe. Education trade unions have a key role in ensuring that not only education about sustainable environmental development is integrated into all levels and aspects of education systems, but also that it is accompanied by sustainable and adequate technical, financial and staff resources and that education staff receive the sufficient professional support to do so.