Environmental education has always been more or less linked to the formal educational systems of different countries; sometimes, recognized in the Education Laws, sometimes as a critical and committed practice on the part of teachers. The year 2020 has been the year of Covid-19, a global pandemic that has changed the everyday and hit people and countries with fewer resources more violently; this pandemic meant that students had to be confined to their homes and thus lose contact with their classmates, with the educational community, but also with their immediate environment.
From the collapse to hope, from simplistic perspectives to complexity, from voluntarism to social and institutional regulation, from problems to solutions, from classrooms to the immediate environment... Environmental education is once again a strategy for training and educational action towards committed societies , critical, supportive and fair.
Finally, we collect the manifesto presented on Earth Day, April 22, 2020, a call for planetary attention on the stage marked by Covid-19.