Volume : 6, Issue : 12, DEC 2020

INITIATIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND GREEN GOVERNANCE: A REVIEW ON INDIAN SCENARIO

GADDEYYA GANDIPILLI*, RANGANATHAN R, SUBHASHINI K

Abstract

Environment Education (EE) denotes a study of environment and its dynamics. The main concept of EE is to prepare suitable strategies for saving our environment. Environmental education is a process to promote the awareness and understanding of the environment, its relationship with man and his activities. The most important landmark for environmental education at an international level was without a doubt the International Conference on Environmental Education organized by UNESCO and UNEP at Tbilisi in former USSR in 1977. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janerio in 1992, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg in 2002 have drawn the attention of people around the globe on our environment. After these two intergovernmental summits, the international community focused on many environmental issues like the loss of forests, solid waste disposal and environmental pollution, degradation of habitats, global warming, the depletion of ozone layer and the loss of biodiversity. India adopted the infusion approach to create awareness on environmental education and green governance by the formal, informal and non-formal education system. The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is the principal nodal agency and chief administrative body of India for the planning, promotion, coordination and the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes. The Ministry also act as a Nodal agency in the country for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The goals of environmental education were defined as creating environmental awareness, impart general knowledge for a basic understanding of environment, acquiring environmental friendly attitudes and values and to generate new patterns of behavior towards environment. Keeping in mind, the authors briefly reviewed the importance and initiatives of Environmental Education and Green Governance in India.

Keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, GREEN GOVERNANCE, NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY, TBILISI DECLARATION, MOEFCC, UNEP.

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