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The questionnaire included three sections: the first section gathered socio-demographic characteristics of the teachers; the second section focused on their teaching experience in HE; and the third section collected EA conceptions about alternative energy use over the next 10 years, including wind, solar and nuclear resources, in contrast to non-renewable sources such as fossil fuels, i.e. coal, oil and gas. This aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action. Exploratory Factor Analysis was conducted in the third section to verify its one factor structure supported by Kaiser\u2013Meyer\u2013Olkin measures and Bartlett\u2019s test of sphericity, with reliability confirmed by Cronbach\u2019s alpha. Paired <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>-tests were conducted to assess differences in EA before and after the EI. The results revealed no statistically significant difference in participants\u2019 EA before and after the EI. Nevertheless, these results have significant implications for environmental physics education courses in Angola. They suggest the potential for future effective interventions, both online and in-person, to enhance EA of teachers across various HE institutions, through an adequate training. Additionally, this research aims to inform policymakers in Angola, and potentially in all of Africa, regarding the existing gaps in EA among physics educators at the tertiary level.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1088\/1361-6552\/add2c3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,14]],"date-time":"2025-05-14T13:17:17Z","timestamp":1747228637000},"page":"045009","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Deficit of environmental awareness among Angolan higher education physics teachers"],"prefix":"10.1088","volume":"60","author":[{"given":"S","family":"Francisco","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"T M","family":"Seixas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6021-6581","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"B","family":"Cavadas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7611-6056","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"M A","family":"Salgueiro da Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"266","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"pedadd2c3bib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.esr.2020.100519","article-title":"Barriers to national renewable energy policy adoption: insights from a case study of Nigeria","volume":"30","author":"Adelaja","year":"2020","journal-title":"Energy Strategy Rev."},{"key":"pedadd2c3bib2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1589","DOI":"10.1007\/s11625-022-01128-9","article-title":"The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process","volume":"17","author":"Agusdinata","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sustain. 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