TEHRAN – The Ministry of the Environment (DOE) held National Environmental Education Day in Tehran on Tuesday.
Tackling the event, DOE head Shina Ansari said environmental protection is a public obligation and that national policy documents also emphasize the importance of environmental education.
Ansari emphasized the importance of environmental education at a young age, saying, “To get out of the current situation, we need to focus on the education sector.”
The DOE plans to work with the Ministry of Education to train green students across the country to change students’ attitudes towards the environment.
On his part, Minister of Education Alileza Kazemi said the ministry is planning to integrate environmental awareness into formal and informal curricula.
“The world faces many threats today. If we can’t deal with them, humans are at great risk because there is nothing left for the future.
The environmental crisis is one of the most important and fundamental challenges facing humanity. “There are irreversible consequences of environmental degradation that require solutions to be considered,” he pointed out.
Officials went on to say that teaching students about the environment, raising environmental awareness, and promoting a culture that protects the environment is one of the basic solutions.
Kazemi said that students can study environmental protection in vocational schools, referring to measures taken in the field of education, and the Ministry of the Environment also established a technical vocational school to train environmental education. “However, in order to succeed, public education is necessary to improve the general understanding of the environment,” Kazemi emphasized.
World Environmental Education Day
World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on January 26th. Its main goal is to locally identify environmental issues worldwide, raise awareness of the need for participation to protect and protect the environment, and mitigate the various levels of impacts caused by climate change.
International Environmental Education Day has been celebrated every 26th January 1975. That year, the international workshop on environmental education was organized in Belgrade, attended by experts from over 70 countries.
The event established principles of environmental education within the framework of the United Nations programme. The outcome of the event was the publication of Belgrade Charter, embodying the fundamental requirements of environmental education, with the goals of this: They have the knowledge, attitudes, motivations and commitment to recognise the environment and its related issues, cultivating a global population of concern, and working individually and collectively for solutions to current problems and solutions to prior problems.
It is important to understand the causes and impacts of climate change and to recognize that sustainable development is a way to meet people’s current needs without compromising the capabilities of future generations, and the fact that protecting the environment means ensuring our own survival. It is also important to understand what renewable energy is, how it helps us to care for our planets, and that water is a natural, limited and rare resource essential to life on Earth.
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