Improvement of the legal basis of the environmental education for sustainable development in Ukraine through the prism of the experience of the Republic of Poland

Abstract

The purpose of this article is a general description of the current legislation in Ukraine and Poland in the field of environmental education for sustainable development. The author analyzes the provisions of the constitutional and other laws and regulations to define the foundations of the legal mechanism of environmental education in these countries as they have a solid long-term legal basis of environmental bilateral cooperation. It is emphasized that there is a positive experience in the field of research in both countries. In Poland, the legal consolidation of the idea of sustainable development and the active development of legislation on education for sustainable development is considered. Meanwhile, in Ukraine the legal consolidation of right to environmental education in the system of environmental rights is appreciated.