World Environment Day 2022: Led by the United Nations Environment World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 every year to raise awareness about degrading environmental conditions and to encourage people globally to take positive environmental actions, to help create a better future.
The progress of mankind in the last century was accompanied by a massive increase in the exploitation of natural resources. From climate change and marine pollution to the depletion of flora and fauna, environmental issues have only increased with each passing decade.
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment aka the Stockholm conference held in 1972 became the first world conference with the environment declared the right to live in a healthy environment as a basic human right. Not only was the idea of a World Environment there also this conference saw the creation of the United Nations Environment Program.
World Environment Day, over the years, became a global platform for people from all walks of life to participate in various campaigns to spread awareness about environmental protection. The celebration of world environment day every year is done according to a specific theme and slogan which addresses the major environmental concern of the time. It is hosted by a different country each year.
India hosted the 45th celebration of World Environment Day under the theme Beat Plastic Pollution. World Environment Day celebration last year also kicked off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) which is a global mission to revive billions of hectares, from forests to farmlands, from the top of mountains to the depth of the seas.
This year, World Environment Day is coming home to said Strandhäll. “All around the country, municipalities, organizations and individuals will get involved in a range of different activities to contribute to a better environment. Events at the local level can have a global impact.”
More than 150 countries are slated to host environmentally themed events on Saturday, part of an annual celebration of the Earth that dates to 1973. Advocates are hoping this year’s World Environment Day will encourage a global effort to tackle what they describe as the rapid decline of the natural world.
A series of recent United Nations reports have found that the climate crisis is accelerating faster than previously thought, with a 50 per cent chance that global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years. That is combined with widespread biodiversity loss – 1 million species are threatened with extinction – and rampant pollution to create a “triple planetary crisis”, which United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said threatens humanity’s future.
Hosted by Sweden, the theme of this year’s World Environment Day is “Only One Earth” focusing on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature. It highlights the fragility of the planet and is designed to re-enforce the idea that the Earth is humanity’s only home. The theme echoes the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, a landmark summit that led to the creation of both and World Environment Day.
It began in 1972, stands at a critical juncture today, she said It is now or never.
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