EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

MITA NANGIA GOSWAMI

DIRECTOR- ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION

WWF-INDIA

The amount of nature needed to support a human being.

- produce what is needed. - take care of the waste

With permission from

Mathis Wackernagel

As the cow

grazing…

Fossil Fuel Built-up Waste Food Fibres

absorption

12.1/ 6.7 = 1.8 Hectares per person

¾ of Earth

Low

bioproductivity

¼ of

Earth

High

bioproducti

vity

UAE:

10,7

USA: 8,0

China: 2,2 India

0,9

Indonesia 0,9

Sweden:

5,9

Ecological footprint per person and

country October 2010

Qatar:

10,5

World average: 2.7 gha

Available resource: 1.8 gha

A global overshot of 50 %

Food, fibre, timber land

Carbon

Built up

land

India

FOOTPRINT

Biocapacity

If all people were

Americans

4,5 earths

4.5 X

If all people were

Americans

”…. development that satisfies present day needs without undermining the opportunities of future generations to satisfy their needs.”

Our common future 1987

Bruntland comission

The poorest 60 % have less than 6 % to consume.

Available resource

1,8 ha/ person

Acceptable

life quality

HDI

What is Sustainable

Development ?

Human Development Index

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India

The most highly educated part of the world’s population is the one affecting the world’s environment most negatively - Charles Hopkins, UNESCO chair

at 13thAnnual International Sustainable Development Conference, June 10-12, 2007, Mälardalen University

The world needs a changed education !!!

In Education for Sustainable

Development we support our

students to develop capacity and

motivation to contribute to a

sustainable development locally

and globally.

Unesco

Ecological

Economical

Social/

Cultural

Social

Ecological Economical

Ecological

sphere

Limits for develoment

Ecologic sphere, social,

economic

Socio-

political

Econom

ic

sphere

Balance

Protection of ------------------ Human

nature needs

Direction for action

Balance

Protection of nature Human needs

ESD - a process

Direction for

action

Discussion concerning

means

Learning:

For life

Through life

Throughout life

Mhatma Gandi Learning: For life - Through life - Throughout life

Thank you