RIYADH — A panel discussion, themed "Training Current and Future Environmental Entrepreneurs", held as part of the Green Youth Summit, emphasized the importance of developing education to provide the necessary tools to make well-established decisions.

The seminar, in which Prince Mishary Bin Turki Bin Jalawi, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Development Association and William McDonough, CEO of McDonough Innovation, USA, addressed the need to transform education systems to include the concept of sustainability in all scholastic disciplines.

The participants underlined the potential of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in addressing the future challenges of climate change, stressing the importance of governments revising their skill systems such as early childhood education, adult learning, and labor market policies, to be in line with their environmental ambitions. — SPA