World Environment Day 2022 : Focus on need to live sustainably in harmony with nature
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World Environment Day 2022 is celebrated throughout the world with the theme of ” Only OneEarth”
Hosted by Sweden, the theme of this year’s WED 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 UNEP and World Environment Day
People from across the globe are expected to come together on 5 June to mark World Environment Day, cleaning up beaches, planting trees and holding marches in an effort to revive what experts say is a planet on the precipice.
More than 150 countries are slated to host environmentally themed events , 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.
During the last 49 years, World Environment Day has cast a spotlight on a host of environmental problems, from pollution to the hole in the ozone layer to deforestation. This year’s event comes at a time considered by scientists and policy-makers as “emergency mode” for the planet, according to a statement issued by UNEP .
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.
World Environment Day on 5 June is the biggest international day for the environment. Led by UNEP and held annually since 1973, the event has grown to be the largest global platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people from across the world engaging to protect the planet.
4 June 2022
Photo : A view of Stockholm . The 1st global conference to recognize the environment as a major world issue was held in 1972 Stockholm, Sweden . This United Nations Conference on the Environment led to the formation of UNEP. ( Picture: UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata )
