As the world struggles to meet ambitious goals to slow down climate change, it has become imperative that planning and execution is not restricted to only policy but is practiced by every individual at community level. To that end, UNESCO recently released its global action programme on ‘education in sustainable development’ at Nagoya in Japan where world leaders collected to mark the end of the first decade of ESD. Irinia Bokova, director general of UNESCO said: “This is a relatively new concept and this is for the first time that ESD has been included in global education. Already, some good examples have been set at the global level. Green societies are not only with respect to governments but are also the responsibility of the private sector, academia, universities and civil society.” 

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