Environmental education is essential for sustainable development:

• To protect children living in polluted regions, environmental education represents a relevant means of prevention because this type of education encourages learner's awareness of their environment's ambient conditions, as well as their active participation in solving local problems.
• It is the need of the hour to propose environmental education with the essential elements of moral philosophy.
• In order to achieve the acceptable level of global environmental sustainability, the citizens must be empowered with essential knowledge and information.
• Then only they can exert pressure on their elected representatives to develop and implement policies for securing environmental sustainability.
• The awareness among the public and industrial generators have to be created and motivated by the updated techniques and incorporating the innovative and implementable solutions to reform our economy.
• These can be achieved through environmental education.Thus, environmental education has two essential components:
  • Alerting the public to the need to achieve global sustainable development and the likely consequences of failing to do so.
  • Focusing the educational curricula for global sustainable development by incorporating the know-how and skills and also the moral imperatives.
• To have a clear idea about the environmental education, more awareness about the following issues are needed:
  • Difference between sustainable development and environmental sustainability.
  • Unique definition for sustainable development depending on Science and Technology alone will deliver environmental sustainability.