7 Principles of Sustainable Development

1. Change and Transform Proactively

2. Life-long and Life-wide Learning

3. System Thinking for Change

4. Well-balanced and Harmonious Future

5. Critical and Lateral Thinking for Creative Solutions

6. Participation for All

7. Partnerships

1. Change and Transform Proactively: People should be empowered to make proactive changes in the lives of themselves, their schools and their local communities. Its goal is to strive towards taking action for a sustainable future.

2. Life-long and Life-wide Learning: ESD does not just take place in schools. It takes place in formal and informal learning environments all over the place, including in school campus, workplaces, home, and so forth. And ESD learning goes deep and wide.

3. Systems Thinking for Change: The global world is interconnected as ecological systems, political systems, economic systems and cultural systems are all connected. everybody is connected to each other and the environment.

4. Well-balanced and Harmonious Future: A better future is our aim in which we can live in balance and harmony with our environment.

5. Critical and Lateral Thinking for Creative Solutions: We need to think critically and laterally to find new ways of doing things and new solutions to get us back on track to sustainability and solve ecological problems such as climate change.

6. Participation for All: ESD encourages inquiry based and project based learning for all in which we are empowered to learn by taking active action for a sustainable world.

7. Partnerships: Schools should team up with each other, NGOs, governments to create a sustainable future.