Technical and Vocational Education & Training (TVET) is widely acknowledged to provide the technical knowledge and vocational skills to the manpower required to exploit the environment for industrial, commercial and economic development. However, continuous and largely unregulated exploitation of natural resources has contributed significantly to climate change, environmental degradation, and associated socio-economic and health challenges globally. Technological advances should consider the safety measures for compensating the environmental uncertainties accompanying them. This paper adopts an expository research approach to argue that integrating green curricula into TVET institutions, particularly polytechnics in Nigeria, can foster a workforce imbued with environmental consciousness, green skills, and sustainability-oriented values. The current study observes that existing TVET curricula in Nigeria insufficiently emphasize environmental preservation and sustainability concepts, resulting in limited climate literacy among graduates. The paper concludes that embedding environmental and sustainability principles across all TVET programmes will produce graduates with sustainability literacy capable of supporting national and global sustainable development goals.
Onyeocha et al. (Thu,) studied this question.