For many years, environmental education was associated with general concepts: resource conservation, emissions reduction and environmental protection. While these principles remain essential, technological progress has added a crucial new layer: evidence. Environmental education is no longer limited to manuals, classrooms or awareness campaigns. In a world shaped by data, automation and intelligent systems, learning about the environment also means understanding how technology can help us measure, prevent and reduce real impacts.

Thanks to digitalisation and major technological advances,** learning about the environment in this context has become synonymous with interpreting environmental and operational data to understand how decisions affect the territory.**

→ Not yet familiar with how technology can support environmental protection? Technology and climate change: Tool, excuse or bridge to the future? explores this topic in greater depth.

Applied environmental education in the tech-driven world

In the energy sector, environmental education cannot be abstract. It requires context, precision and tools capable of addressing the complexity of operations.

Climate tech startups play a key role in this new approach to education. By developing concrete solutions to real-world problems, they bring environmental education into everyday operations. It is not just about talking about sustainability, but about embedding it into processes. Platforms that connect environmental and operational data, systems that anticipate failures and tools that promote prevention generate actionable knowledge.

→ Learn more about climate tech startups in “Introduction to Climate Tech Startups.”

On Environmental Education Day, the challenge is to broaden our perspective. Learning about the environment also means learning to use technology in an intelligent, responsible and strategic way. At Uali, we believe that environmental education begins with understanding how we operate. That is why we combine robotics, artificial intelligence and IoT to transform information into decisions that protect assets, people and the environment. When learning is driven by data and prevention, positive impact stops being an intention and becomes a daily practice.