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Education for Sustainable Development in France

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France has made considerable investments in recent years to implement a veritable ESD policy to meet the real needs of our society, in all its local, regional, national, and international dimensions. In compliance with the guidelines of the national Sustainable Development (SD) strategy adopted by the government in June 2003 and the attachment of the environment charter to the French constitution in 2005, all the institutional stakeholders have been mobilised to define and apply effective Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for all schoolchildren on general, technological, and professional courses. The Grenelle Environment Forum in 2007 has led to numerous initiatives and laws which have helped to reinforce the development of ESD in schools and higher education institutions and to take into account all the present and future challenge of our societies.

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Ricard, M., Dussaux, M. (2015). Education for Sustainable Development in France. In: Jucker, R., Mathar, R. (eds) Schooling for Sustainable Development in Europe. Schooling for Sustainable Development, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09549-3_17

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