Winning the future with greening education

The strength of this statement is drawn from the evidence of policy progress, as well as the insights of civil society organisations who are tracking environment friendly measures on the ground. Nonetheless, the worldwide economy is still excessively reliant on fossil fuel-based energy, transport and carbon intensive industries. With an increasing share of this workforce finding themselves unemployed, these sectors are quite simply failing to secure and create enough jobs. The brown economy model is struggling and does not provide us the sustainability we need to safeguard this planet, which we are in effect borrowing from future generations. Some yet to be born. What then are the aspirations and robust foundations the world has, on which to build a green and equitable economy?

Politics Matters
For the first time and at the COP21 in 2016, worldwide governments together with businesses, trade unions and civil society organisations adopted the “Paris Agreement on Climate” to set global targets for the world to reduce or at the minimum, maintain global carbon emissions. This offered for the first time, an opportunity for all countries, but the most industrialised ones in particular, the prospects of making changes where economy, ecology and society can match and work in a symbiotic manner. As a matter of fact, we need governments, all governments, especially those of the most polluting countries to politically support such an accord to transform this “agreement” into a “movement”. The opening statement by Mrs. Von der Leyen when she was newly appointed the European Commission President in 2019 wishing “Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent in the world by 2050” gave all, including experts, technocrats and decision makers hope for the future, as it was considered to be a call to action.