This Day is declared by the UN General Assembly with aims to deepen public awareness of the need to preserve and enhance the environment. This also recalls the opening day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972), which led to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).This is Celebrated in order to raise the global awareness about the importance of the healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the environmental issues by implementing some positive environmental actions as well as to make aware common public worldwide that everyone is responsible for saving his environment and not only somebody, government or organizations working for it.It is a big annual celebration started by the UNEP to engage millions of people from different countries across the globe as well as draw attention of political and health organizations to implement some effective actions.
Each year has a different theme. For 2015 the theme is Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care. The aim is to encourage us all to 'live within our planetary boundaries.
For more details. http://www.unep.org/wed/index.asp
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