In 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health will dedicate an issue to Planetary Health education. Fuelled by the intersecting challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and profound social, economic, and environmental injustices, calls for new ways to work together for a healthy, just, and sustainable future are burgeoning. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare and further accentuated these issues. Meaningfully addressing these deep and interconnected issues is fundamentally a learning process. Society at large must move beyond existing patterns and constraints toward ways of thinking, being and acting (eg, imagination, knowledge, and governance challenges) that restore, protect and safeguard our shared planetary home and the living systems we depend on. Consequently, there is a growing imperative and mandate across the education space (eg, learners, educators, education institutions, decision makers) for transformative, inclusive, inte grative—and sometimes disruptive—approaches to learning that strengthen our capacity to work toward the goal and imperatives of planetary health. This requires attention to pathways of societal, policy, and educational system change, prioritising different voices and perspectives across jurisdictions, cultures, and learning contexts.
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