World Environment Day 2021

 

History of World Environment Day 

In the year 1972, the UN General Assembly established World Environment Day on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Two years later, in 1974, the first World Environment Day (WED) was held with the theme 'Only One Earth'. And then in 1987, the UN came up with an idea for rotating the host country for the celebrations of this day.

 

Theme for World Environment Day 2021

This year’s theme for WED is 'Ecosystem Restoration'. Ecosystem restoration means preventing, halting, and reversing the damage caused by human activities and finally healing our nature. This WED will see the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Every three seconds, the world loses plenty of forests, and, over the last century, we have destroyed half of our wetlands. This year’s mission is to revive billions of hectares, from forests to farmlands, and to also cover the mountains and deep water oceans.