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Summary
This article talk about addressing the climate challenge requires
individuals and institutions to be able to assess and understand climate
change, design and implement adequate policies, and, most important of
all, take action toward low-carbon, climate-resilient, and sustainable
growth. Therefore, climate change education is an essential part of
learning for sustainable development.
To achieve sustainable development, which is development that
meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs; individuals need to adopt
sustainable lifestyles. Everyday, millions of choices are made by
individuals, businesses, and governmentsall of which influence society
and environmental impact. These choices connect and differentiate
individuals evolving within a global society. Unsustainable collective
choices have led to major environmental crises, from climate change to
resource scarcity, while failing to improve people's well-being. However,
sustainable lifestyles, enabled by both efficient infrastructure and
individual actions, play a key role in minimizing the use of natural
resources, emissions, wastes, and pollution while supporting equitable
socioeconomic development and progress for all. This requires rethinking
ways of living, purchasing, and consuming, altering the organization of
daily life, of socialization, exchange, education, and the building of
identities.
On another level, a strong case can be made for a learning for
sustainable development agenda based on current gaps in young
people's understanding of their own role. Some people informed about
global challenges such as climate change, but demonstrated a striking
lack of information about local-level issues related to global
challenges. While environmental damage and degradation as the worst
elements within a vision of the future, sustainability was still not
considered as a factor for progress. Education provides a unique
opportunity to inform and empower young peopleand all peopleto
create their own sustainable lifestyles and communities.
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EVALUATION
Education must be made climate compatible and linked to
sustainable development in order to meet the needs of the future and
beyond. Education is an approach to teaching and learning based on the
ideals and principles that underlie sustainability. As such, education
promotes multi-stakeholder social learning; emphasizes the empowerment
of communities and citizens; engages with key issues such as poverty
reduction, sustainable livelihoods, climate change and encourages
changes in behavior that will create a more sustainable future.
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Conclusion
Given the world's limited natural resources, rising population, and
the climate change challenge, sustainable development cannot be
attained without education that equips learners with the skills needed to
live healthy, safe, and productive lives in the future, while also
safeguarding the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
The learning for sustainable development will equip individuals with new
knowledge and the skills needed to reduce vulnerabilities and change
behavior, ultimately creating more resilient individuals and societies.
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Recommendation
Sustainable lifestyles are patterns of action and consumption, used by people to affiliate and
differentiate themselves from others, which: meet basic needs, provide a better quality of life,
minimize the use of natural resources and emissions of waste and pollutants over the lifecycle, and do
not jeopardize the needs of future generations.
Kate Scott, Literature Review on Sustainable Lifestyles and Recommendations for Further
Research, Stockholm Environment Institute, March, 2009
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References
Sumner, Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion: What is Three-Quarters of the World's Poor Live in MiddleIncome Countries, Institute of Development Studies no 349 (2010): 46.
Anderson, Climate Change Education for Mitigation and Adaption, Journal of Education for Sustainable
Development, September 2012.
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JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Submitted by:
Manalili, Judiel P.
Submitted to:
Dr. Ruby P. Henson