World Environment Day

Theme of World Environment Day 2020 is
“Celebrate Biodiversity”

History
World Environment Day [WED] 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. Two years later, in 1974 the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth".


The current theme is extremely significant because human beings are part of the ecosystem and cannot stay to survive in seclusion. It will be hosted in Colombia, in partnership with Germany in this year. With 1 million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to focus on biodiversity.Biodiversity is important for the survival of all living things big and small, on land, or in water.We need to understand that while there may be a food chain and ranking of species, every living thing is connected to another living thing, and together it forms a network of diverse life forms on the planet. 

This year theme is both urgent and existential.

“2020 is a year for urgency, ambition and action to address the crisis facing nature.

It is also an opportunity to more fully incorporate nature-based solutions into global climate action,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UNEP.

Each year, World Environment Day is a powerful platform to accelerate, amplify and engage people, communities and governments around the world to take action on critical environmental challenges facing the planet.

Colombia ranks first in bird and orchid species diversity and second in plants, butterflies, freshwater fish and amphibians. The country has several areas of high biological diversity in Andean ecosystems, with a significant variety of endemic species. It also has part of the Amazon rainforest and the humid ecosystems of the Chocó biogeographical area.

There is no better time to come together for the planet than now,” said Jochen Flasbarth, Germany’s State Secretary for the Environment. “Climate action and biodiversity conservation are two sides of the same coin. We need to develop policies that stop the extinction of plant and animal species.

Remember 

5 Rs 

REUSE

REGENERATE

REFORM

RECYCLE

REDUCE

3 Cs 


CYCLING

 CHANGE

CHECK








Few important sayings by great people



“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”. – Margaret Mead


“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment”. – Ansel Adams


“Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble”. – Roger Tory Peterson


“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land”. – Aldo Leopold


“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another” – Mahatma Gandhi


“The environment is everything that isn’t me”. – Albert Einstein



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