Hand Print - Action towards sustainability

Hand Print is the

1. Symbol of
2. Measure for
3. Commitment to

positive actions of individuals or groups towards sustainability in a rapidly changing world. The five fingers in the Hand Print represent awareness, knowledge, values, skills, participation - the five important components of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), leading to positive action. Hence it is a promising measure of ESD. The positive nature of the concept makes Hand Print attractive and inspirational and is finding acceptance at the global level as it gives us a sense of hope.

Emerged from one of the Centre for Environment Education’s (CEE) ESD programmes in the schools of the beautiful city of Hyderabad, India, the Hand Print is growing as an promising concept and is gaining popularity.

Hand Print measure can be an ESD tool to calculate the role of ESD components in any given positive action towards sustainable development.The tool designed given here is specifically designed to measure the contribution of ESD in the promotion of positive actions towards biodiversity conservation and sustainable use for achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets in the UN Decade on Biodiversity.