Education for just transitions: Lifelong learning and the 30th anniversary Human Development Report.

The 30th anniversary Human Development Report, entitled was released by the United Nations Development Programme in December 2020. It marks an important step forward as a high-profile publication trying to radically re-think the challenge of sustainable development and revisit what it means to develop as human beings interconnected within earth systems. This article provides a critical reading of the report, and human development literature more widely, in assessing the role of lifelong learning in educating for which it broadly understands as the transformation of all social systems, including economic systems, to bring them back into balance with earth systems in which they are embedded.