Context:
- World Environment Day offers a global platform for inspiring positive change. It recognizes that global change requires a global community.
- It pushes for individuals to think about the way they consume; for businesses to develop greener models; for farmers and manufacturers to produce more sustainably; for governments to safeguard wild spaces; for educators to inspire students to live in harmony with the Earth; and for youth to become fierce gatekeepers of a green future. It requires all of us.
Background:
- World Environment Day is the most renowned day for environmental action.
- Since 1974, it has been celebrated every year on 5 June; engaging governments, businesses, celebrities and citizens to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue.
Theme:
- This year a theme is concern that is both urgent and existential.
- Recent events, from bushfires in Brazil, the United States and Australia to locust infestations across East Africa–and now, a global disease pandemic–demonstrate the interdependence of humans and the webs of life in which they exist.
- Nature is sending us a message.
In 2020, the theme is biodiversity.
In 2019, the theme is Air pollution.
Future Officers 