WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION DAY

LET'S TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE TOGETHER!

Let’s learn correct behaviors towards our environment by knowing it, protecting it and preserving it.

The purpose of celebrating World Environmental Education Day is to raise awareness of the problem, not only globally, but also locally.

The first indications of the importance of caring for the environment appeared in 1972, when in the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm, Sweden expressed its interest in raising awareness and implementing principles that would be useful to society as a guide to preserve and improve the environment.

And it was not until 1975, during the International Workshop on Environmental Education, experts from more than 70 nations set out their basic objectives in the Belgrade Charter. They defined six key points to help social groups and individuals become actively involved in achieving those objectives. The following are the main objectives of Environmental Education as set out in the Tbilisi Declaration:

Awareness and Knowledge

To acquire greater sensitivity, awareness and basic understanding of the environment and its associated problems, as well as the presence and role of humankind in it.

Attitudes and Skills

To help individuals acquire a set of values, attitudes, commitment and skills for environmental improvement and protection.

Action and Participation

To create new patterns of behavior based on responsibility that help individuals and communities to take care of their environment.

This commemoration seeks that each person identifies the environmental problems they live with on a daily basis, seeking solutions and participating actively.