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World Environment Day

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5th to raise awareness about environmental issues. It was first held in 1973 and is organized each year by the United Nations Environment Programme in a different host city. This year's host was Kigali, Rwanda, which was chosen due to its exceptional biodiversity. While independent events are held worldwide on this day, World Environment Day specifically educates the host city about environmental protection and sustainability issues. However, despite decades of environmental events and activism, global warming impacts continue to threaten the planet due to a lack of pollution-free technologies and affordable eco-friendly products. Merely raising awareness is not enough and significantly more effort is needed from governments and industry.

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World Environment Day

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5th to raise awareness about environmental issues. It was first held in 1973 and is organized each year by the United Nations Environment Programme in a different host city. This year's host was Kigali, Rwanda, which was chosen due to its exceptional biodiversity. While independent events are held worldwide on this day, World Environment Day specifically educates the host city about environmental protection and sustainability issues. However, despite decades of environmental events and activism, global warming impacts continue to threaten the planet due to a lack of pollution-free technologies and affordable eco-friendly products. Merely raising awareness is not enough and significantly more effort is needed from governments and industry.

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World Environment Day Abhishek Kumar Rukhaiyar

“Many Species. One Planet. One Future.“ was the theme for World Environment Day 2010. A
day celebrated by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) every year on 5th June. It
was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm
Conference) began. The conference was from 5 th-16th June 1972. It was the UN’s first major
seminar on international environmental issues. This event marked a turning point in evolving a
political awareness about the environment. 5 th June 1973 was the first World Environmental
day (WEP) celebrated.

Annually on this very day an event, organised by UNEP, is hosted in a different city with a
different theme. This year’s global host was Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda is an African republic
nation which has earned an immense respect for its environmental protection measures. It is
regarded as a country of exceptional biodiversity, which makes it the most suitable host for this
year’s WEP, as UNEP is celebrating year 2010 as International Year of Biodiversity. Apart from
this around the world many independent events are organised on this particular day for rising
awareness about the environment.

World Environment Day is surely an educational affair for the particular city which hosts this
event. A similar and much more popular event is Earth Day. It is celebrated every year
worldwide on April 22nd. There are many more such events which are organised now and then
throughout the year to develop and change the thinking of cosmopolitans towards the
environment.

Apart from all these events the main objective still looks far from reach. Despite the efforts put
by environmental activists for almost forty years, the effects of environmental ignorance are
still out there. We are on the verge of seeing the catastrophic consequences of Global
Warming. These events, like WEP or Earth Day, are not motivating the industry to develop
pollution-free technologies. Even if the governments have supported with the financial benefits
for those who had worked for the betterment of environment, the world would have been
much better place. Even if the awareness is created among the general public for environment,
they have to use the same products which will result in pollution. Our environment will not be
protected without the availability of cheap eco-friendly products. So, an event like World
Environment Day is not more than a fun camp. These events are not going to mark a long
lasting mark. We need considerably enhanced efforts.

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