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The UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has developed an action plan, the Sustainable Development Action Plan for Education and Skills, which sets out a learning agenda for education and training providers. The aim is that providers should operate in a more environmentally sustainable way and that they should also teach others to do so. The action plan argues that sustainable development (SD) is about achieving economic, social and environmental objectives at the same time. Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) aim to develop excellent vocational provision that is focused on meeting the skills needs of employers and they are expected to play a leading role in furthering the 'education for SD' agenda in their vocational specialisms. The purpose of this report is to assess the contribution that the CoVE program is making to SD. It considers: the contribution made to SD through the vocational curriculum; the impact of SD on the design, development and purchase of new or existing facilities; the contribution made to SD through community engagement; and the influence and role of employers in developing new forms of provision. The report is based on a survey questionnaire sent to 260 CoVEs nationally, followed by face-to-face interviews with staff from a selection of CoVEs covering eight specialist vocational areas. Respondents were asked to provide examples of features of the teaching and learning approach that they would identify as good practice. This report offers an insight into how the national CoVE program is beginning to address the integration of SD into a number of vocational specialisms. It reveals that CoVEs are beginning to make a valuable contribution to the integration of SD into a number of economically important vocational areas.