World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5, annually to encourage awareness and environmental protection. The purpose of World Environment Day is to encourage environmental awareness and to remind people that nature should not be taken for granted. This day is marked all over the world to honor and recognize everything that the environment has given humanity, as well as to pledge to protect it.
It is one of the United Nations (UN) largest yearly activities aimed at raising awareness about the importance of nature.
In 1972, on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, the United Nations Assembly established World Environment Day. ‘Only One Earth’ was the theme of World Environment Day in 1974. Various host countries have been commemorating it since then. In the United States, World Environment Day was first recognized in 1974.
The goal of World Environment Day is to raise awareness about the importance of the environment and to remind people that nature should not be taken for granted.
Humans have been abusing and ruining the planet’s ecosystems for far too long. Every three seconds, the globe loses enough forest to cover a football field, and we have lost half of the world’s wetlands in the previous century. Even if global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as much as 50% of the world’s coral reefs have already been lost, and up to 90% of coral reefs might be destroyed by 2050. At a time when humankind can least afford it, ecosystem loss is depriving the globe of carbon sinks like forests and wetlands.
Global greenhouse gas emissions have increased for three years in a row, putting the world at risk of catastrophic climate change. We must now radically reconsider our relationship with the living world, natural ecosystems, and biodiversity, and try to restore it.
This day is observed around the world to honor and recognize everything that the environment has provided mankind, as well as to promise to safeguard it.
‘Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.’ is the subject of this year’s World Environment Day, which coincides with the start of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. This year, Pakistan is the worldwide host for the day, which emphasizes the necessity of ecosystem restoration.
