In addition to teach and sensitize about the importance of the environment and its preservationenvironmental education seeks to create values and attitudes in citizens who promote rational employment of natural resources and contribute to solve the numerous environmental problems that occur, mainly in the field of cities.
The Environmental education is based on respect for natural and cultural diversity and in intercultural dialogue and communication as axes, to work the values of conservation of nature, biodiversity and protected areas within the framework of sustainability.
Environmental education is fundamental
The Regional Government, through the Ministry of Sustainable Development, will prepare and approve a new 2026-2030 Action Plan “that establishes the strategic lines and the actions to be carried out within the framework of the Environmental Education Strategy of Castilla -The stain, the result of a participatory procedure open to the entire Castillanomanchega society and, especially, to the agents or groups that play an outstanding role in the field of environmental education”.
This has been stated by the General Director of Circular Economics and Agenda 2030, Esther Haro, during the inauguration of the III Day of Environmental Education that the Ministry celebrates this Wednesday and Thursday in Albacete, where she has indicated that “this action plan is The continuity to the first emerged from the environmental education strategy that we approved in 2020, and that marks the way to achieve a more aware citizens and acts in accordance with the principles of sustainability”.
As explained by the general director of Circular Economics and 2030 Agenda, “we are in the last stage of the strategy and we must say that we are very satisfied because of the 55 Actions that addresses there are four already completed and 80 percent in process, so we are on the right track. ”
Haro, who has been accompanied by the provincial delegates of Sustainable Development, Llanos Valero; and education, culture and sports, Diego Pérez; and the provincial deputy of the Environment, José Antonio Gómez; He has assured that this third meeting, after passing through Toledo and Cuenca, “with the full capacity for days and more than 200 people,” has “a very attractive panel through round tables and workshops where numerous experts in the subject to advance on the most interesting topics”.
“When 2025 are 50 years old from the signing of the Belgrade Charter, an international framework document that is the basis of environmental education, it is essential meetings of this type to understand the importance of Respect the environment and contribute to the conservation of natural resourcesto achieve sustainable societies, ”said Esther Haro.
Therefore, he said that “from the Government of Castilla-La Mancha we continue to bet on it as a fundamental tool for the environmental awareness of citizens, essential to achieve the change of habits necessary for a region that advances in a compromised way” And, as added, environmental education is a transversal task to all administrations and all sectors of society.
In addition, it has referred to the 1,424 activities carried out in this area throughout Castilla-La Mancha during the year 2024, with almost 100,000 participating people, “a very remarkable figure, so the importance of establishing channels for the exchange of experiences and knowledge in knowledge in knowledge in the field of environmental education in our region and seek the participation of sectors that have much to contribute as the educational, the municipal, the one of the wasteetc”.
Finally, it has advanced that the two aid will be convened soon in this area for the 2024-2025 course, on the one hand, to Teaching centers for visits to environmental education centers from Castilla-La Mancha and the Network of Protected Areas, with an amount of 50,000 euros; “We increase your amount to be able to meet a greater number of applications.” Likewise, aid for non -profit entities will be convened to carry out environmental education activities with a line of 120,000 euros.
Promote sustainability
The meeting this year will be dedicated to environmental education as a tool for more sustainable production and consumption. Thus the inaugural session has had the intervention of María Negro Barroso, communication consultant and responsible and nonconformist business strategy, disseminator about sustainability and author of the book ‘Change the world: 10 steps towards a sustainable life’.
Throughout two days, the day will have people of reference and prestige in each of its areas and will develop around five spaces with different formats to deal with the ‘citizen awareness in local policies on waste’; ‘Beyond the 3R in the educational system’; ‘New narratives to motivate the population’; ‘Society enters the scene: hands to action’; ‘Presentation Guide for the elaboration of a municipal environmental education plan’. In addition, there will be two sessions of inspiring experiences, where projects already put into practice will be exhibited in Matter of Environmental Education and Circular Economicsthat serve as inspiration and motivation to other agents.