Every year on June 5th, World Environment Day is celebrated to encourage worldwide awareness and action to protect the environment.
Since 1974, World Environment Day has been celebrated every year on 5 June; engaging governments, businesses, celebrities, and citizens to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue.
World Environment Day 2020 History
World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, resulting from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment.
In 1974 the first World Environment Day was held with the theme "Only One Earth". Even though the World Environment Day celebration has been held annually since 1974, in 1987 the idea for rotating the center of these activities through selecting different host countries began.
World Environment Day 2020 theme
The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is biodiversity – a concern that is both urgent and existential as per the United Nations official website. Recent events, from bushfires in Brazil, the United States, and Australia to locust infestations across East Africa – and now, a global disease pandemic – demonstrate the interdependence of humans and the webs of life, in which they exist.
The theme focuses on 'time for nature' and providing the essential infrastructure that supports life on Earth and human development.
Here are a few quotes that will inspire you to save the environment...
1. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed". - Mahatma Gandhi
2. “Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!” – Leonardo DiCaprio
3. Let us give our coming generations a healthier and happier environment to have a beautiful life… Best wishes on World Environment Day.
4. Earth is like our home and we must make efforts to keep it clean and green. On the occasion of World Environment Day, let us promise to make it a better place to live!
5. When is the best time to plant a tree? …Twenty years ago. The second best time is…now!”
6. "Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment”. - Oscar Wilde
7. “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”-Lady Bird Johnson
