World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5th June and is the principal vehicle of the United Nations for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment.
First held in 1974, World Environment Day has been a platform for raising awareness on a wide range of environmental issues. It is a global platform for public outreach with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, the programme has provided a theme and forum for NGOs, communities, businesses, governments and celebrities to advocate environmental causes.
For 2021, the theme is “Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.”
“This is our moment.
We cannot turn back time. But we can grow trees, green our cities, rewild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. We are the generation that can make peace with nature.
Let’s get active, not anxious. Let’s be bold, not timid.”
The trouble is that we think we have time.
We don't.
We ALL need to make an individual contribution in recognising that there is a climate emergency and a biodiversity crisis and do something to tackle it before it is too late for humanity and the nature that inhabits the planet with us.
We need to up our game and act now.
There has been too much talk and not enough action.
The UK Government and all Governments need to step up, show strong leadership and agree meaningful and binding commitments at the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention onBiological Diversity in China in October 2021 and the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021.
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Stay safe, stay well, stay strong, stay connected with nature
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