World Environment Day is held on Wednesday June 5th 2019, and is
on June 5th every year. It isn’t a public holiday, it is an environmental
awareness day, run by the United Nations. It is sometimes also unofficially
called Eco Day or Environment Day. The aim of the Day is to raise awareness of
the environment and specific environmental issues.
Wold Environment Day (WED) was established in 1972 but first
held in 1974, which shows that concern about the environment goes back several
decades at least. 143 countries take part in World Environment Day, and the day
focuses on environmental concerns ranging from pollution to global warming and
sustainable food production to protection of wildlife.
Every year there is a new main focus for WED. This year the
focus is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, and the press and media are already gearing
up for this by reporting on events and efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
Participants of WED include NGOs, governments, communities,
individuals, charities, organizations and celebrities, and together they raise
awareness of environmental issues. Each year a country or Nation hosts WED, and
this year India is the host, last year Canada hosted it, and the theme was
‘Connecting People and Nature’.
World Environment Day has had its own anthem since 2013.
World Environment Day can be celebrated in many ways, activities
such as clear up campaigns are popular and will be prominent this year, also
concerts, conventions and parades, tree planting, and lectures. Promotional
materials for the day tend to be created using natural environmental colours.
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