41 recommendations should help the integration of EE into national and international policy, into formal and non-formal education and into curricula of schools.
Table 1 Important conferences, workshops and prominent publications of the twentieth century
concerning environmental education (IUCN, UNEP, WWF 1980; UNEP and UNESCO 1978;
UNESCO 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2005; UNESCO and Federal Ministry of Education and
Research of Germany 2009; UNESCO and UNEP 1975, 1987, 2007, 2012; United Nations 1972,
1992a, b, 2002, 2012, 2015; WCED 1987)
Year
Origin
Conference
Documents
1972
Stockholm/
Sweden
United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment
Report of the United
Nations Conference on the
Human Environment
1975
Belgrade/
Yugoslavia
International Workshop on
Environmental Education
The Belgrade Charta: A
Framework for Environmental Education
1977
Tbilisi/Georgia
Intergovernmental Conference
on Environmental Education
Final Report
1980
World Conservation
Strategy
1987
Moscow/Russia
Congress on Environmental
Education and Training: Tbilisi
Plus Ten Conference
International Strategy for
Action
1987
Norway
Our Common Future:
Brundtland Report
1992
Rio de Janeiro/
Brazil
United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development: The Earth Summit
Agenda 21, Convention on
Biological Diversity
1997
Thessaloniki/
Greece
International Conference Environment and Society: Education and Public Awareness for
Sustainability
Declaration of Thessaloniki
2005–2014 Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
2007
Ahmedabad/India International Conference on
Environmental Education
Ahmedabad Declaration
2009
Bonn/Germany
UNESCO World Conference
on Education for Sustainable
Development
Bonn Declaration
2012
Rio de Janeiro/
Brazil
United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development: Rio
+20
The Future We Want
2012
Tbilisi/Georgia
Intergovernmental Conference
on Environmental Education
for Sustainable Development:
Tbilisi +35
Tbilisi Communiqué
2015
United Nations,
Transforming our world:
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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