The following sub-themes will guide the Congress Programme development:

• Environmental education in the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development.
• Environmental education, ethics and action, training and life-long learning, globalisation, internationalisation, in contexts poverty, risk and vulnerability and the WEHAB (Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture, Biodiversity) agenda, social justice and socio-ecological change, policy and curriculum transformations. Cultural changes and environmental learning.
• Sustainable schools and learning institutions Ecological integrity, society and environmental education.

• 4th World Environmental Education Congress