Environmental Education and Adaptation to Climate Change

Many municipalities all around the world are already investing in environmental education. They promote local events for orientation and awareness of the general public about environmental issues and problems experienced in the counties, emphasizing the internal management of natural resources. Most of the times it is incorporated some discussions on sustainable development. But still it is not often address the issue of adaptation to climate change as an important and indispensable component of sustainable development. But one should bear in mind that Environmental education is one of the measures of fundamental importance to the process of Adaptation to the Global Warming.

It is recommended that environmental education, including adequate information on adapting to climate change, be:

• continued and strengthened where already occurs; and
• initiated in municipalities where do not occur today.
  [Based in the Final Report of the Research “Education, Information and Local Adaptation Measures to Global Warming” carried on the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, 2009]