World Environment Day, June 5
World Environment Day (WED) is the biggest, most globally celebrated day for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. It is also known as Environment Day, Eco Day, or WED. It is a spectacular annual event focusing on environmental issues and trying to resolve them completely. It has been celebrated all over the world with many creative activities and enthusiasm to bring positive changes to the environment. Its purpose is to protect the natural environment on Earth for a healthy possibility of life.
Firstly it was celebrated in 1974 to raise awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. World Environment Day is the ‘people’s day’ for doing something to take care of the Earth or become an agent of change.
It aims to attract and attract the attention of millions of people, including political and health organizations from various countries around the world so that they can formulate new plans and implement them accordingly. In order to control the negative environmental changes, it is very important to pay attention to issues like wastage and loss of food, increasing global warming, deforestation, pollution, industrialization, etc.
Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern.
The theme invites people to think about how they are part of nature and how intimately they depend on it. It challenges people to find fun and exciting ways to experience and cherish this vital relationship.
The theme of World Environment Day 2025 is “Ending Plastic Pollution.”
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Host The Republic of Korea
Every World Environment Day has a different global host country, where the official celebrations take place. The focus on the host country helps to highlight the environmental challenges it faces and supports the effort to address them. This year The Republic of Korea is the global host of 2025 World Environment Day.
Jeju Province in the Republic of Korea was chosen as the host location for World Environment Day. In 2022, the province declared a vision to become free of plastic pollution by 2040. Jeju is the only province in the country where household waste must be disposed of at designated recycling support centers. The system requires waste separation from the source, driving higher recycling rates and ensuring more waste is repurposed. Also, Jeju is the first province to introduce a disposable cup deposit system in the Republic of Korea.
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World Environment Day Anthem
An Earth Anthem penned by poet Abhay K is sung to celebrate World Environment Day.
It was launched in June 2013 on the occasion of World Environment Day by Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor, the Union Ministers of India, at a function organized by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi.
Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl the most beautiful planet in the universe all the continents and all the oceans united we stand as flora and fauna united we stand as species of one earth different cultures, beliefs, and ways we are humans, the earth is our home all the people and the nations of the world all for one and one for all united we unfurl the blue marble flag.
UN chief António Guterres said in his message that “nature is sending us a clear message. We are harming the natural world, to our own detriment.”
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