Monday, June 5, 2023

June 5, United Nations World Environment Day





Small Changes Make a Big Difference

World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme.

Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for 2023...

Is a reminder that people’s actions on plastic pollution matter. The steps governments and businesses are taking to tackle plastic pollution are the consequence of this action.

It is time to accelerate this action and transition to a circular economy.

It is time to #BeatPlasticPollution.

WED Mission: To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

"Remember it is people that propel social progress, develop science and technology, and, through their hard work, continuously transform the human environment. We are both creature and moulder of our environment."

These words are spoken directly from the 1972 Declaration on the Human Environment, which was adopted by the #UnitedNations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, 16 June 1972.


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