Over the past few years, thanks to the Stockholm Declaration, Belgrade Charter and Tbilisi Declaration environmental education has gained momentum and has been integrated into courses offered at high school as well as college level. There are over 173 masters level courses on this area of research in the UK alone and thousands more in the USA.

In India, under the Ministry of Environment and Forests' mandate, an Environment Education Centre (EEC) was set up to understand and mitigate a wide range of environmental issues that a big country like India faces, including but not limited to, global warming, expanding population, recurring diseases and widespread poverty. In 2004, a Supreme Court order made it mandatory for all levels of education to have environmental science as a subject. With this order as a background, the EEC has been focused on preparing curriculum for textbooks followed in schools, and has actively conducted teacher training workshops to enable the county's teaching faculty to have access to cutting edge research in the field of environmental science.

In the last decade, the country has seen an active involvement of the youth, especially students of high schools and undergraduate programs, in tackling global environmental issues that plague our society. Students have been actively participating in awareness programs, research pods, conferences and seminars which focus to find solutions to these issues. The youth of the nation aren't afraid to raise their voices, against anything that they deem as harmful to the pristine environment gifted to us by Nature.

Hopefully, with environmental education picking pace, we will see a generation that is more sound when making impactful decisions, more adaptable and more eco-friendly with an ultimate goal of protecting our planet hardwired into them.