By resolution 2994 (XXVII) of December 15, 1972, the General Assembly designated June 5 as World Environment Day, to deepen public awareness of the need to preserve and enhance the environment. That date was chosen because it was the opening day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972), which led to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Twenty years later, the Assembly convened UNCED in Rio de Janeiro, where nations came together to take the decisions needed to rekindle the hopes of the 1972 Conference and to take up the challenges of a viable and equitable balance between environment and development and a sustainable future for the earth and its people. Source: United Nations Website

WED 2020

The Theme this year 2020 is "Time for Nature"

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Colombia in partnership with Germany, on

June 5th is biodiversity

WED 2015

The theme this year is "Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care."
Living within planetary boundaries is the most promising strategy for ensuring a healthy future. Human prosperity need not cost the earth. Living sustainably is about doing more and better with less. It is about knowing that rising rates of natural resource use and the environmental impacts that occur are not a necessary by-product of economic growth.
Many of the Earth's ecosystems are nearing critical tipping points of depletion or irreversible change, pushed by high population growth and economic development. By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same and with a rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain our ways of living and consumption.

WED 2014 Raise your Voice Competition

The United Nations Environment Programme announced that the theme of this year World Environment Day will be small island developing states or "SIDS"

Island nations around the world are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters and rising seas. However, they have also come up with some amazing solutions to cope with these problems.

RECOMMENDED "World Environment Day" LINKS:

Spring 2017 Issue...Portrait Earth and its Poetic Image/Ecoartpedia/Points of Reference

Earth Day 2017...for Science and Earth as a Planet

Ecological Art REVIEW...Constructing a River of Consciousness

Global PERSONAL-POETIC Art/Ecoartpedia 2016 Special Edition

World Environment Day 2015/A message from Dr.Jane Goodall

JANE GOODALL SEEDS OF HOPE...Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants/Foreword by Michael Pollan

WED 2015/Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care

WED 2015 panel discussion at the Water for a Sustainable World Conference in Venice, Italy on May 21, 2015 dedicated to the theme of this year's World Environment Day

World Environment Day 2014 Competition Winner: Raise your voice, not the sea level!

World Environment Day June 5, 2014 aims to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on small islands states around the world. There is also much to be learned from these countries, which have overcome a number of environmental problems with only limited resources.

Ready_GO 2014

ECOSPHERE

The Underwater Museum
Jason DeCaires Taylor Sculptures

Bookhuggers DAY presents:

June 5, 2013/BOOK CONFERENCES/BOOKEXPO

JUNE 5, 2012/BOOKS SELECTIONS

JUNE 5, 2011/Once Upon a Time TOUR by Federico Uribe

BOOKHUGGERS celebrate

UNESCO WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2009/Selected FILM "HOME"

EARTH FROM ABOVE

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