Training of Sustainable Development Specialists Within the Environmental Education System

The achievement of sustainable development goals necessitates further theoretical reflection and revision of approaches to educational activities, considering the global challenges and threats of our time. In the context of sustainable development concept paradigm, the educational process is considered within the ecological model, which is demanded in training and retraining of specialists of different profiles, possessing knowledge, abilities, and skills, necessary for state policy implementation, management organization, making effective decisions in the sphere of society and nature interaction, eliminating contradictions and achieving the balance of economic, ecological and social interests. The authors, having analyzed the works of scientists, investigated the Voluntary Report of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the SDGs in Russia in 2019, and Rosstat data highlighted the need for environmental management. Current areas of educational programs in the field of sustainable development are proposed