''To make peace...it takes a flower'. Climate justice education for sustainable development

Abstract

The warming of the Mediterranean, the climate emergency, and environmental migrations will be the main emergencies in the coming years. Natural capital will be less and less available. It will be the source of conflicts, armed or not, between peoples who have not directly experienced war. In fact, they have grown in high-income countries, which have widened the social divide, generating the inequality paradox.

Selfishly understood as a resource rather than the common home, the environment is increasingly a matter of justice, opportunity, empowerment, human rights. It can be an instrument for building positive peace or a harsh and violent conflict.

Starting with the concept of the Anthropocene and a brief analysis of climate change, the paper will first focus on the issue of climate justice and then highlight how little attention is paid to it in formal education processes. It will be emphasized that this lack makes environmental education and education for sustainable development less effective than desired. The paper closes with a pedagogical reflection on the reason why the recovery of dimensions such as justice, equity, and the containment of inequalities within educational processes, implemented using the global citizenship education approach, makes these more capable of peace, sustainability, and future.