Increasing training for sustainable development

Many new skills are required if and when humanity moves towards a sustainable society. At the professional and technical levels, there will be great need for specialists in environmental matters. They will need a broad understanding of the principles of a sustainable society, which entails understanding how systems, wether ecosystems or anthropogenic systems, work and interrelate. Skills can be facilitated by improved telecommunications, education, personnel and information exchange. These needs may be met by increased NGO, independent community action, private sector and governments activities.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Reorienting education towards sustainable development
2. Building administrative structures for sustainable development

1. Training youth for employment in sustainable development
2. Training specialists for interdisciplinary programmes on sustainable development
3. Training local environmental technicians to assist local communities
4. Training environmental impact assessors
5. Training decision-makers in use of environmental economics
6. Strengthening training for sustainability in development aid projects
7. Setting up training programmes in sustainable development for education professionals
8. Providing in-service training on sustainable development laws
9. Preparing training manuals on population and sustainable development
10. Preparing national strategies to meet basic learning needs for sustainable development
11. Networking on sustainable energy
12. Integrating sustainable development issues into all training curricula
13. Integrating sustainable development ethics into education, training and research programmes
14. Increasing training and awareness programmes on environmental threats and emergencies
15. Including sustainable development issues in journalistic education
16. Including sustainable development issues in curricula and training programmes for journalists
17. Including sustainable development information in professional training programmes
18. Including sustainable development in education and training programmes in companies
19. Including sustainable development in company education and training programmes
20. Including environmental management in training programmes for all sectors of society
21. Improving training on sustainable development law
22. Improving education and training of indigenous peoples for sustainable self-development
23. Improving ability to analyse information on sustainable development
24. Identifying workforce training requirements for sustainable development
25. Giving higher priority to budgets in sustainable development education and training
26. Facilitating exchange on training for sustainability
27. Facilitating capacity-building and training programmes for local authorities on sustainable development
28. Extending environmental training programmes of United Nations system to employers and workers groups
29. Expanding sustainable development education
30. Expanding environmental management education and training
31. Establishing regional training centres on sustainable development laws
32. Establishing post-graduate training for decision-makers on sustainable development
33. Establishing environmental training programmes to meet needs of special groups
34. Ensuring sustainable industrial development
35. Educating for integrated island management
36. Developing new approaches for training on environmentally sound practices
37. Creating environmental education partnerships with industry
38. Assessing impact of environmental training programmes on productivity, health, safety and environment
39. Assessing environmental training needs of people in geographically, socially or culturally isolated situations

1. Providing environmental assistance to developing countries
2. Building a sustainable society
3. Advancing role of non-governmental organizations in sustainable development

1. Tailoring training programmes in response to structural adjustment impacts
2. Reviewing progress on training for sustainable development
3. Reviewing professional ethics to improve environmental commitment
4. Preparing guides for environment training
5. Linking environmental quality and good business practice
6. Giving priority to primary environmental care in deprived urban and rural areas
7. Expanding labour market information systems on environmental job and training opportunities
8. Expanding exchange of experience on environment and development training methods

1. Unsustainable
2. Undeveloped
3. Underdevelopment
4. Overdevelopment
5. Development

1. Learning for a Sustainable Environment
2. Agenda 21