Ms. Mita Nangia Goswami Director of the Environment Education Division of WWF India at RPR 2012, 23-26 August, Goa, India

1. EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
MITA NANGIA GOSWAMI
DIRECTOR- ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION
WWF-INDIA

3. The amount of nature needed
to support a human being.
- produce what is needed.
- take care of the waste

4. As the cow
grazing…
With permission from
Mathis Wackernagel

5. Fossil Fuel Built-up Waste Food Fibres
absorption

6. 12.1/ 6.7 = 1.8 Hectares per person
¾ of Earth ¼ of
Low Earth
bioproductivity High
bioproducti
vity

7. Ecological footprint per person and
country October 2010
UAE:
10,7 Qatar:
10,5 USA: 8,0
Sweden:
5,9 China: 2,2
Indonesia 0,9 India
0,9

9. World average: 2.7 gha
Available resource: 1.8 gha
A global overshot of 50 %

10. Built up
land
Carbon
Food, fibre, timber land

11. India
FOOTPRINT
Biocapacity

13. If all people were
Americans
4.5 X
If all people were
Americans
4,5 earths

14. ”…. development that satisfies present day needs
without undermining the opportunities of
future generations to satisfy their needs.”
Our common future 1987
Bruntland comission

18. The poorest 60 %
have less than 6 %
to consume.

19. What is Sustainable
Development ?
Ecological Footprint
Acceptable
life quality
Available resource HDI
1,8 ha/ person
Human Development Index

20. Ecological Footprint (gha per person)
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Sweden
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India
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HDI

21. The most highly educated part of the world’s population is
the one affecting the world’s environment most negatively
- Charles Hopkins, UNESCO chair
at 13thAnnual International Sustainable Development Conference, June 10-
12, 2007, Mälardalen University
The world needs a changed education !!!

22. In Education for Sustainable
Development we support our
students to develop capacity and
motivation to contribute to a
sustainable development locally
and globally.
Unesco

23. Social/
Cultural
Ecological Economical
Social
Ecological Economical

24. Ecological
sphere
Socio-
political
Econom
Limits for develoment
ic
Ecologic sphere, social, sphere
economic

25. Balance
Protection of ------------------ Human
nature needs
Direction for action
Balance
Protection of nature Human needs

26. ESD - a process
Direction for
action
Discussion concerning
means

27. Learning:
For life
Through life
Throughout life
Mhatma Gandi Learning: For life - Through life - Throughout life

29. Thank you