IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ON NATIONAL POLICIES: ANALYSIS OF THE AMERICAN AND BRAZILIAN CASES

Abstract

This article analyzes the influence of international environmental education conferences on the national policies adopted in this area by the United States and Brazil. The research contextualizes the debate on environmental education in the countries analyzed, as well as examines legal diplomas and official texts of public policies in the area of environmental education, in order to ascertain whether these national policies of the sector are influenced by the recommendations adopted by the global forums of environmental education. It is concluded that, both in the United States and in Brazil, the impact of the final documents of the main global conferences on environmental education on the formulation of public policies on this theme in those countries is unequivocal.