Conference notes:

1. Current Party policy and the genuine commitment to the Environment within the Liberal Democrats.
2. The publication of "Environmental Responsibility: an agenda for further and higher education" by the Department for Education and the Welsh Office on 2/2/93.
3. Conference believes
4. That "Environmental Responsibility" is a positive step towards taking local action to improve the global situation.
5. That a basic level of environmental awareness is needed across the workforce as a whole. Both Further and Higher Education establishments have an important role to play in developing this awareness.
6. That funds should be provided, by the Government, for a national programme to support the development of environmental education.
7. That students themselves are a resource to be drawn on when developing extra-curricular environmental activities.

Conference supports

1. Moves to urge the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils to encourage and reward the adoption of sound environmental practice in the institution which they fund.
2. Moves to develop the environmental understanding of students whose courses are not specifically "environmental", and greater promotion of environmental education across the curriculum.
3. Greater dialogue between employers, students and FHE on the provision of environmental education.
4. The Toyne Report which called for the adoption of comprehensive environmental policy (including an action plan for implementation), covering all aspects of its environmental performance, by the beginning of academic year 1994/5, in every FHE institution.
5. The development of a coherent policy for environmental education by government, both local and national.

Conference resolves

1. That the Student Executive should implement a campaign on "greening the curriculum" as a priority, and to write to Parliamentary spokespersons on Education and the Environment.