The goal of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - Environmental Programme (UNESCO- UNEP), for environmental education, is, 'to develop a world population that is aware of, and concerned about, the environment and its associated problems, and which has the skills, attitudes, motivations and commitment to work individually and collectively toward solutions of current problems and prevention of new ones'. The recommendations made by UNESCO-UNEP outline an education which is 'for' the environment, rather than just 'about' the environment. This study examined the extent to which environmental economics is currently being taught in Brisbane secondary schools, in a bid to discover what changes economics teachers propose, in order to facilitate a more effective economics education, 'for' the protection and improvement of the environment.