Transforming and Empowering Future Educators: Perspectives on Climate Action Through a Wider Perspectives Project

This special issue of Environmental Education showcases a diverse range of approaches to implementing and embedding sustainability and environmental education within Initial Teacher Education (ITE) curricula.Case studies are included from all four nations of the UK and will be relevant to educators from early years through to higher education.The 18 contributions illuminate differing approaches to ITE including university and school-led models.This publication was inspired by the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) Sustainability and Climate Change Education Forum held at Liverpool Hope University in December 2024.This event brought together passionate and committed academics, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from across the UK, including the Climate Education Lead from the Department for Education's Sustainability and Climate Change Unit.The event highlighted the critical role of engaged individuals in taking Environmental Education forward within ITE, particularly in England where teacher educators have experienced diminishing degrees of autonomy in relation to the ITE curriculum.In such circumstances, organisations such as UCET and the UK Teacher Education for Equity and Sustainability Network (TEESNet) assume particular importance in bringing together interested parties, as reflected in the feedback from the UCET Forum: "Incredible to be in this space where I previously have felt out on a limb.