WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2020

With countries under lock down due to the corona virus outbreak, one positive which seems to have come out of this whole situation is that our environment has become better. When you look outside your balcony, you see more birds on the trees and in the morning wake up to their chirping. Pollution levels have reduced and the air has become cleaner too.

It is only if we keep on taking care of the environment around us - that in turn shall benefit us. World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5, so that people are reminded that we should not take nature for granted. It is an event that takes place all over the world and is organized by the United Nations, who celebrated it for the first time in 1972 by the UN General assembly, during the first day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.

For 2020, the theme for World Environment Day is ‘Celebrate Biodiversity’ and shall be hosted in Colombia, in partnership with Germany. This is a very relevant theme because human beings cannot survive in isolation as biodiversity is important for the survival of everyone.

We, the children and youth, will not forget about the need for climate ambition and leadership to protect the environment! Now more than ever. These are Unprecedented Times, and We Need Unprecedented Action.    

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