Education for sustainable development is a life-wide and lifelong endeavour which challenges individuals, institutions and societies to view tomorrow as a day that belongs to all of us, or it will not belong to anyone.

As the United Nations lead agency in education, UNESCO must play a key role in setting quality standards in education for sustainable development. It needs to reorient its own programmes to include the changes required to promote sustainable development. Improving the quality of education and reorienting its goals to recognize the importance of sustainable development must be one of UNESCO’s and the world’s highest priorities.

Education in science and technology is an important part UNESCO's contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

For more information on UNESCO's participation in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, click below or contact: esddecade@unesco.org