Seeking a green future through education

This chapter traces the association between green and education, noting the similarities in concerns with the four pillars of green political parties and the principles developed by the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987). It discusses the emergence of notions of greening education in the late 1980s, and green schools’ movements in the mid/late 1990s. The characteristics of the green schools’ movements in different countries are compared within a broadly shared philosophy of green schools needing to adopt a whole school approach. This is followed by a discussion of the relationship between green schools, the United Nations (2016) Sustainable Development Goals and concerns to develop global citizenship.