Inspire positive change to restore our planet
THIS year, World Environment Day's theme is 'Only One Earth', which focuses on living sustainably in harmony with nature.
This year World Environment Day conference is hosted in Sweden.
According to website: english.jagran.com, the day was first held in 1973, World Environment Day is described as "a global platform for inspiring positive change" by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the organisation that created it.
World Environment Day is a day dedicated to the environment and celebrated to spread awareness among common people about the issues of the environment.
It also encourages people from different societies and communities to actively participate in the celebration as well as become an active agents in developing environmental safety measures.
It is now the largest global environmental event, with millions of people in more than 150 countries participating.
The idea is to engage "governments, businesses, civil society, schools, celebrities, cities and communities [in] raising awareness and celebrating environmental action".
The 2022 World Environment Day, hosted by Sweden, campaigns for "collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet", encouraging everyone, everywhere, to live sustainably and take action on the climate crisis.
This year marks 50 years since the first global environment summit.
The theme for 2021 was "Ecosystem Restoration" and the conference was hosted by Pakistan.
The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm led to the founding of UNEP.
Even though World Environment Day celebrations have been held annually since 1974, the idea of rotating the centre of these activities by selecting different host countries began in 1987.
UNEP says that, despite a raft of climate agreements, progress towards halting climate change is still too slow and individuals and civil society must play a key role in raising awareness and urging governments and the private sector to make large-scale changes.