World Environment Day is held on June 5th every year. It isn’t a public holiday; it is an environmental awareness day, run by the United Nations. It is sometimes also unofficially called Eco Day or Environment Day. The aim of the day is to raise awareness of the environment and specific environmental issues.
World Environmental Day (WED) was established in 1972 but first held in 1974, which shows that concern about the environment goes back several decades at least. 143 countries take part in World Environment Day, and the day focuses on environmental changes ranging from pollution to global warming and sustainable food production to protection of wildlife.
Every year there is a new main focus for WED. This year the focus is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, and the press and media are already gearing up for this by reporting on events and efforts to reduce plastic population.
Participants of WED include NGO’s, governments, communities, individuals, charities, organisations and celebrities, and together they raise awareness of environmental issues. Each year a country or Nation hosts WED, and this year India is the host. Last year Canada hosted it and the theme was ‘Connecting People and Nature’. World Environment Day has had its own anthem since 2013.
World Environment Day can be celebrated in many ways, activities such as clear up campaigns are popular and will be prominent this year, also concerts, conventions and parades, tree planting, and lectures. Promotional materials for the day tend to be created using natural environmental colours.
Taken from National Awareness Days Events Calendar 2018
