The Aims of the publication 1. To provide a general understanding to policymakers and educators on the importance of ESC which is expected to lead into responsible behavior in time of environmental degradation, the rising middle class which tend to have over consumption behavior, and the efforts to bring quality of life for the poor. 2. To bring the recommendations to policymakers to support ESC through formal education and encourage further development of current initiatives in non formal education; conduct more ESC public campaign; regulate sustainable production within business community, ethical marketing, and eco label; and to mainstreaming and integrate ESC into the existing curricula in formal education, and encourage further the efforts of ESC within non formal education. 3. To increase the understanding and knowledge of ESC as conceptual framework to educators and guide the educators in the following elements: integrate ESC into the existing formal education curricula with mixed approaches, develop further various ESC initiatives in non formal education, and reach more audience and strategic agent of change, while adjusted ESC material to specific local condition (to indicate challenges and opportunities) and the profile of the target group; and take the benefits of using social media as dissemination tools of ESC. Education for sustainable consumption is an important part of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). This publication is an adaptation Here and Now! ESC Recommendations and Guidelines, which was jointly developed by UNEP and the Ma rrakech Task Force on ESC led by Italy in collaboration with the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development and Hedmark University College in Norway. YPB is fortunate to have the opportunity to adapt Here and Now! ESC Recommendations and Guidelines to Indonesia’s contexts, needs and priorities, with the assistance of UNEP and other key partners, such as PERL and IGES.
Darwina Widjajanti, Lead Author
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