SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION: THE SCIENCE EXPRESS MOBILE EXHIBITION IN INDIA

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Sustainability requires that we not only focus on the survival of the current generation but also on the prosperity of future generations (Sleurs, 2008). To be able to do this, it is important that the education offered to the students stress the importance of sustainability and teaches them to envision the future. Also, acquiring personal behavior that will encourage sustainability and critically analyze the current systems and see if they are sustainable as they move into the future, encourage teamwork in finding solutions, and empowers them to take part in the decision making (Chang & Pascua, 2017). Therefore, education for sustainability will be essential in encouraging sustainable development as it will open the students into the idea of building a sustainable future in different sectors including the environment, social, economic and governance (Tilbury, 2011).

Finding ways to deal with climate change should be included in the ways of ensuring sustainable development. It is important that much effort is put in place to ensure that the human activities that lead to climate change are done away with, reduced or done in a way that we balance their benefits and their effects to the environment (Mochizuki and Audrey, 2015). As mentioned, humans contribute a lot to climate change, and there is no way that the war on climate change can be waged without engaging the humans. Most of the activities carried out by humans that lead to climate change are mostly done as economic activities meant to provide livelihood to those involved. However, the activities have drastic