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    | Environmental   Education and Training (EET) promotes attitudes   and value systems that influence environmentally ethical behaviour by developing   understanding, skills and values that will enable people participate as active   and informed citizens in the development of an ecologically sustainable and   socially just society   
 Environmental Education is   fundamental to the achievement of the goal of sustainable development.   Education, awareness raising and training are essential to UNEP fulfilling its   mandate of Inspiring, Informing and Enabling nations and peoples to achieve   sustainable development.
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    | CALLING FOR STUDENTS ENTRIES 
    IN SUSTAINABILITY GENERATION WORKSHOP | 
  
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    | At the 1st International Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African (MESA) Universities partnership 
      conference held in Nairobi (24 – 28 November, 2008), university students from the MESA partnership institutions 
      expressed powerfully through their representatives a desire to be pro actively involved in the process of mainstreaming of 
      environment and sustainability in their respective institutions. At the close of the workshop, the students had established a 
      MESA universities partnership students’ movement with a mission to implement sustainability in African countries.  More | 
    
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