World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on the 5th of June every year, and is the United Nations’ main means of protecting and protecting our environment. People celebrate World Environment Day (WED) in various ways around the world: planting trees, cleaning local beaches, organizing meetings, joining in online protests. Each year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) selects a specific theme to focus on around the world. One year it may be the forest, another year the animals and there is a new host every year.
The United Nations (UN) named the International World Environment Day on June 5, 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment. The idea was to focus on the many problems our environment is facing. They wanted to include as many local and national peoples, organizations and governments as possible. The first WED was celebrated in 1974 in Spokane, USA. The slogan for that first year was ‘Only One Earth’ and was celebrated with the world’s first dedicated exhibition on environment.
In 1974. First WED was hosted in the city of Spokane in the USA with the collaboration of 34 different cities in 25 countries, from Cuba to Korea, Belgium to Brazil. Every year people around the world attend a large number of events to focus on the main problem regarding the environment and every year celebrations focus on a specific issue. In the past ten years, major aspects such as wildlife, forests and plastic waste, marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming have been focused on the celebration.
World Environment Day 2020 will be celebrated on Friday, June 5, 2020 in Colombia. This time slogan will be “Time for Nature”. Actually, this is the time for nature with the effect of Covid-19 pandemic, Ozone layer is healing, tress are growing, flowers are blooming and animals are roaming in free. Thus, to protect our environment we have more to do like use Reusable Bags, Print as Little as Necessary, Recycle, Use Reusable Beverage Containers, Save Electricity, Save Water and use public transport to save energy. So, let’s start from this WED to make a better future for our planet.
