World Environment Day, June 5
World Environment Day (WED) is the biggest, most globally celebrated day for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. It is also known as Environment Day, Eco Day, or WED. It is a spectacular annual event focusing on environmental issues and trying to resolve them completely. It has been celebrated all over the world with many creative activities and enthusiasm to bring positive changes to the environment. Its purpose is to protect the natural environment on Earth for a healthy possibility of life.
Firstly it was celebrated in 1974 to raise awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. World Environment Day is the ‘people’s day’ for doing something to take care of the Earth or become an agent of change.
It aims to attract and attract the attention of millions of people, including political and health organizations from various countries around the world so that they can formulate new plans and implement them accordingly. In order to control the negative environmental changes, it is very important to pay attention to issues like wastage and loss of food, increasing global warming, deforestation, pollution, industrialization, etc.
Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern.
The theme invites people to think about how they are part of nature and how intimately they depend on it. It challenges people to find fun and exciting ways to experience and cherish this vital relationship.
The theme of World Environment Day 2024 is “Land restoration, desertification and drought resilience.”
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Host The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Every World Environment Day has a different global host country, where the official celebrations take place. The focus on the host country helps to highlight the environmental challenges it faces and supports the effort to address them. This year The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the global host of 2024 World Environment Day.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host World Environment Day 2024 with a focus on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. Land restoration is a key pillar of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, which is critical to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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World Environment Day Anthem
An Earth Anthem penned by poet Abhay K is sung to celebrate World Environment Day.
It was launched in June 2013 on the occasion of World Environment Day by Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor, the Union Ministers of India, at a function organized by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi.
Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl
the most beautiful planet in the universe
all the continents and all the oceans
united we stand as flora and fauna
united we stand as species of one earth
different cultures, beliefs, and ways
we are humans, the earth is our home
all the people and the nations of the world
all for one and one for all
united we unfurl the blue marble flag.
