50th WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2022
World Environment Day 2022 is the biggest international day for the environment. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and held annually since 1973, it has grown to be the largest global platform for environmental outreach. It is celebrated by millions of people across the world. Each year, United Nations decide a host city to organize different events for the cause of celebration. Celebrations of World Environment Day each year are based on the particular theme declared by United Nations. World Environment Day 2022 will be hosted by Sweden. “Only One Earth” is the campaign slogan, with the focus on “Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature”. “Only One Earth” was the slogan for the 1972 Stockholm Conference; 50 years on, this truth still holds – this planet is our only home.
2022 THEME – ONLY ONE EARTH
With nature in emergency mode, the #OnlyOneEarth campaign for World Environment Day 2022, wants you to celebrate the planet through collective environmental action. #OnlyOneEarth theme advocates for transformative environmental change on a global scale. The campaign shines a spotlight on climate action, nature action and pollution action while encouraging everyone, everywhere to live sustainably.
WHY IT IS CELEBRATED ?
The day emphasizes the importance of nature and its conservation. The day is celebrated across the world to raise awareness about the essential need of providing protection to our mother nature. Environment Day is a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, the program has provided a theme and forum for businesses, non-government organizations, communities, governments and celebrities to advocate environmental causes.
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 promotes alertness regarding scorching issues of environment pollution, drastic climatic changes, green house effect, global warming, black whole effect etc, among human beings on the planet Earth. “World Environment Day 2022 “
HISTORY OF WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment ( 5–16 June 1972), that had resulted from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. Two years later, in 1974 the first WED was held with the theme “Only One Earth”. Even though WED celebrations have been held annually since 1974, the idea of rotating the centre of these activities by selecting different host countries began in 1987. United Nations designed World Environment Day as the main tool to create worldwide awareness about hot environment issues.
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Main objectives of United Nations behind declaration of World Environment day was to give a human face to environmental issues, empower to become agents of sustainable and equitable development, promote to change attitude towards the environment and advocate partnership between each human being and each society to ensure a safe future.
CELEBRITY PARTISANS
Major corporations, non-governmental organizations, communities, governments and celebrities around the world have also adopted WED to champion environmental causes. Among the most visible earth crusaders is Leonardo DiCaprio, who in 1998 incepted his eponymous foundation with the credo to protect the world’s threatened ecosystems. Since then, DiCaprio has made sizeable donations and calls to action in documentary films and public platforms.
Closer home Alia Bhatt who famously took the pledge to go plastic-free, supports mass drives to keep beaches garbage-free and has been using her status as a youth icon to address a wide range of environmental issues.
Dia Mirza has been vocal about the preservation of rivers, forests and wildlife habitats for years whereas Aamir Khan has been quietly leading a movement for a drought-free Maharashtra for years with ‘Paani Foundation’, his non-profit organization which is active in the area of drought prevention and watershed management.
HOW INDIA IS CELEBRATING IT ?
In 2018 India hosted the day – the theme was ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’. Over 6,000 people gathered at Versova Beach in Mumbai to join UN Environment Champion of the Earth, Afroz Shah, in a beach clean-up, where they collected over 90,000 kg of plastic. The Indian government made a bold commitment to ban all single-use plastic which makes up 70 percent of marine litter by 2022 and European Union lawmakers agreed on a ban by 2025. Many bollywood celebrities are creating awareness too.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath planted saplings on the occasion of World Environment Day at the Gaushala of the Gorakhnath temple complex in Gorakhpur. PM Modi will host a session on ‘crafting a conscious planet’ with Sadhguru. “Looking forward to attending the session on crafting a conscious planet with Sadhguru,” PM Modi tweeted on Saturday. On the occasion of World Environment Day, the Centre is set to launch a global initiative called ‘LiFE Movement’ on Sunday evening. Different events, activities at different locations are going to support EnvironmnetDay.
WE ALL SHOULD CELEBRATE IT !
While our individual consumption choices do make a difference, it is collective action that will create the transformative environmental change we need, so we can advance to a more sustainable and just Earth, where everyone can flourish. Share your events and actions by taking part in the Earth Action Numbers, and using #OnlyOneEarth and #WorldEnvironmentDay2022 on social media. Like every year, there are hundreds of events and actions planned all around the world, from an electric vehicle rally in Cairo to a massive cyclathon in Mumbai to an e-waste drive in Bucharest, just you need to support in any positive way.
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