Abstract
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an important theme in geographical education. The International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Education (IGU-CGE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG) have developed declarations and educational standards on ESD and promoted it in geographical education. The IGU-CGE stated that the approach to social and environmental transformation is an important component of the declarations. ESD and the IGU-CGE's geographical education have common features in terms of social transformation, and geographical competencies described in the declarations contain elements of it. The IGU-CGE requests that each country adopt the contents of the declarations, and the curricula for geographical education in Germany reflect them. ESD is also one of the important themes of geographical education in Germany, and the educational standard in Germany under the DGfG is based on elements of ESD and original German viewpoints.
