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Climate change is a major challenge for human beings in the 21st century United Nation 2013 Epstein 2011 Wright 2008 As a result many mitigations and adaptation plans have been generated in order to help solve the issue Education is an important part of these plans because it is considered a vital and important tool to increase public awareness United Nations 1972 Han 2015 Therefore Environmental Education EE has become the preferred solution and has gradually developed in the last decade Global EE projects such as the United Nations Education for Environment Population and Development Project have emerged to comply with the global climate change agenda Han 2015 China has a long history in developing EE In 1998 the official education project Environment Population and Development EPD was launched in Beijing and quickly spread to the rest of the country Zhang 2010 The EPD program which was later renamed to Environmental Sustainable Development ESD aimed to integrate EE into curricula in primary and secondary schools and develop textbooks Zhang 2010 The program was gradually developed over the decade and managed to accomplish notable achievements However implementation gaps such as lack of policy and school support have hindered local government and schools from implementing the programme Han 2015
