This article aims to reflect on the actions of the Environment Council (EC) in the field of Environmental Education (EE), taking on for theoretical-conceptual basis, on the one hand, the recommendations arising from international conferences, such as Tbilisi and the Treaty of Environmental Education for Sustainable Societies and Global Responsibility, and another, the consideration of the legal frameworks governing the public policies of environmental management and EE in Brazil, this also taking into account some results of empirical-theoretical researches, which takes EC as target of analysis. Even considering the inherent contradictions of the capitalist mode of production and authoritarianism that characterizes the Brazilian political process, it was concluded that the EC may contribute to the management of socioenvironmental problems and, simultaneously, strengthen civil society and the public interest within the state apparatus, especially through the EE.
Environmental education; Council of environment; Social participation; Environment public policies; International conferences