Integrating the phenomenon of climate change into educational curricula to achieve the sustainable development goals: “Reality And Hope”

This paper discussed the concept of climatic changes, the difference between climate and weather, the reasons for the occurrence of these severe climatic changes sweeping different regions of the world, the improvement of international interest in the crisis of accelerating climatic changes, and the most significant international, regional, and national conferences that held to confront the climate crisis. Moreover, the paper explored the definition of sustainable development, its four dimensions (environmental, economic, social, and human), the sustainable development aims issued by the United Nations General Assembly, the possibility of achieving these aims in different countries of the world, and the obstacles that prevent achieving sustainable development at the local, regional, and global levels. This paper also addressed how to develop the instructional curricula to confront the climatic changes and achieve sustainable development to attain a balance between the requirements of human life and the requirements of preserving the environmental resources available in nature, without prejudice to the rights of future generations to achieve a dignified human life in the environment.                                                                           
The paper concluded with some recommendations, as follows:
1- Increasing interest in studying the reasons of the phenomenon of climatic changes, how to confront it, and exchanging the results that reached by the specialized research centers at the national, regional, and global levels.             
2- Increasing interest in reconsidering the structural frames of the instructional curricula, in terms of philosophy, goals, content, activities, instructional means and methods, and evaluation of the preparation of the good people who inhabit the universe; all the universes; For all people without fanaticism towards a country; or religion; or race; or color.