World Environment Day: Many Species. One Planet

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
5th June
Every Year by Allah dad Khan

What is environment
The sum total of all surroundings of a living
organism, including natural forces and other living
things, which provide conditions for development
and growth as well as of danger and damage

Environmental pollution
Environmental pollution is “thecontamination of the physical
and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an
extent that normal environmental processes are
adversely affected”

Types of Environmental Pollution
Generally speaking, there are many types of environmental
pollution but the most important ones are:
1. Air pollution
2. Water pollution
3. Land pollution (contamination)
4. Noise pollution
5. Radioactive pollution

Pollution how ?
“Pollution is the introduction of contaminantsinto the environment that
cause harm ordiscomfort to humans or other living organisms, or that
damage the environment” which can come “in the form of chemical substances,
or energy such as noise, heat or light”. “Pollutantscan be naturally occurring
substances or energies, but are considered contaminants whenin excess of
natural levels.”
“Much of what we have come to call pollution is in reality the nonrecoverable
matter resources and waste heat.”
 “Any use of natural resources at a rate higher than nature's capacity to restore
itself can result in pollution of air, water, and land.” (Ref. 6)
 “Pollution is habitat contamination”

Pollution how ?
Pollution is “the addition of any substance or
form of energy (e.g., heat, sound, radioactivity)to
the environment at a rate faster than the
environment can accommodate it by dispersion,
breakdown, recycling, or storage in some harmless
form”
“Pollution is a special case of habitat destruction; it
is chemical destruction rather than the more
obvious physical destruction. Pollution occurs in all
habitats—land, sea, and fresh water—and in the
atmosphere

Waking to a Silent Spring
In 1962, the writer Rachel Carson published a famous book called
Silent Spring. It showed how chemical pesticides were harming birds. It
was the first detailed book about how human actions were hurting the
environment. Over the years, many more books and newspaper reports
made the issues of saving our planet well-known to everyone.

The Stockholm Conference
On 5th June 1972, world leaders got together to think seriously about
our planet's future for the first time. Leaders of 113 countries met in the
Stockholm Conference, and agreed upon a plan to reverse some of the
damages. It was the first time that issues like CFCs and global warming
were discussed.
After the Conference, the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) was set up. It coordinates activities of all UN member states on
issues. One of its best achievements was the Montreal
Protocol (watch out for an article on this), which banned CFCs and
help stop ozone depletion. The UNEP today funds environmental
protection activities in many countries, and is helping countries draw
up a treaty to stop global warming.

History
It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in
1972 on the day that United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment began
World Environment Day
The anniversary of the Stockholm Conference is celebrated as
World Environment Day every year. Each year, there is a special
theme. The first ever theme was 'Only One Planet'. This year's
theme is Many Species. One Planet.
It was first time celebrated in 1973 with the particular theme
“Only one Earth”. Since 1974, the celebration campaign of the
world environment day is hosted in different cities of the world.

World Environment Day Theme and Slogan
Each year celebration of the World Environment Day is based on the
particular theme decided by the United Nations to make the celebration
more effective by encouraging mass people worldwide to hugely take part
in addressing environmental issues on global scale. Year wise list of the
themes and slogans of world environment day are mentioned below:
 The theme of the year 2015 would be “One World, One Environment”.
 The theme of the year 2014 was “small island developing states” or “SIDS”
and “Raise your voice, not the sea level”.
 The theme of the year 2013 was “Think. Eat. Save.” And slogan was
“Reduce Your Foodprint”.
 The theme of the year 2012 was “Green Economy: Does it include you?”.
 The theme of the year 2011 was “Forests: Nature at your Service”.
 The theme of the year 2010 was “Many Species. One Planet. One Future”.
 The theme of the year 2009 was “Your Planet Needs You – Unite to Combat
Climate Change”.
 The theme and slogan of the year 2008 was “CO2, Kick the Habit –
Towards a Low Carbon Economy”.

contd
 The theme of the year 2007 was “Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?”.
 The theme of the year 2006 was “Deserts and Desertification” and slogan was “Don’t Desert
Drylands!.”
 The theme of the year 2005 was “Green Cities” and slogan was “Plan for the Planet!”.
 The theme of the year 2004 was “Wanted! Seas and Oceans” and slogan was “Dead or Alive?”.
 The theme of the year 2003 was “Water” and slogan was “Two Billion People are Dying for It!”.
 The theme of the year 2002 was “Give Earth a Chance”.
 The theme of the year 2001 was “Connect with the World Wide Web of Life”.
 The theme of the year 2000 was “The Environment Millennium” and slogan was “Time to Act”.
 The theme of the year 1999 was “Our Earth – Our Future” and slogan was “Just Save It!”.
 The theme of the year 1998 was “For Life on Earth and slogan was “Save Our Seas”.
 The theme of the year 1997 was “For Life on Earth”.
 The theme of the year 1996 was “Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home”.
 The theme of the year 1995 was “We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment”.
 The theme of the year 1994 was “One Earth One Family”

contd
 The theme of the year 1993 was “Poverty and the Environment and slogan was “Breaking the
Vicious Circle”.
 The theme of the year 1992 was “Only One Earth, Care and Share”.
 The theme of the year 1991 was “Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership”.
 The theme of the year 1990 was “Children and the Environment”.
 The theme of the year 1989 was “Global Warming; Global Warning”.
 The theme of the year 1988 was “When People Put the Environment First, Development Will
Last”.
 The theme of the year 1987 was “Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof”.
 The theme of the year 1986 was “A Tree for Peace”.
 The theme of the year 1985 was “Youth: Population and the Environment”.
 The theme of the year 1984 was “Desertification”.
 The theme of the year 1983 was “Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and
Energy”.
 The theme of the year 1982 was “Ten Years after Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental
Concerns)”.
 The theme of the year 1981 was “Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains”.
 The theme of the year 1980 was “A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development without
Destruction”.

contd
 The theme of the year 1979 was “Only One Future for Our Children and slogan
was “Development without Destruction”.
 The theme of the year 1978 was “Development without Destruction”.
 The theme of the year 1977 was “Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands
Loss and Soil Degradation”.
 The theme of the year 1976 was “Water: Vital Resource for Life”.
 The theme of the year 1975 was “Human Settlements”.
 The theme of the year 1974 was “Only one Earth during Expo ’74”.
 The theme of the year 1973 was “Only one Earth”.

World Environment Day Quotes
 Some of the famous quotes (written by the famous personalities) on world
environment day are mentioned below:
 “The environment is everything that isn’t me”. – Albert Einstein
 “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a
thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools”. – John Muir
 “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth”. – Henry
David Thoreau
 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”. – Margaret Mead
 “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment”. – Margaret Mead
 “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment”.
– Ansel Adams
 “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.
Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is
there to defend”? – Robert Redford
 “Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may
renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you”. – John Muir
 “Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon
be in trouble”. – Roger Tory Peterson

World Environment Day Quotes contd
 “By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water”. –
Aeschylus
 “If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not
produce food, either”. – Joseph Wood Krutch
 “They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their
neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse”. –
Sitting Bull
 “Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land”. – Aldo Leopold
 “After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a
corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other
words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital”. –
Maurice Strong
 “Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right
hand and chop off his left”. – Aldo Leopold
 “You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return
to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a
cycle of plant and animal life”. -Jacob Bronowski
 “People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one
– themselves”. – Robert Collier

World Environment Day Quotes
 “I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment”. – Pat Buckley
 “We must return to nature and nature’s god”. – Luther Burbank
 “The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get
everybody involved”. – Richard Rogers
 “Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of
leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium”. – Paul Tsongas
 “Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime
movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don’t stop at a nation’s borders”.
– Warren Christopher
 “I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and
international priorities”. – Brian Mulroney
 “Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law;
in journalism, literature and art”. – Barry Commoner
 “Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the
environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it”. – Barry Commoner
 “The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal
should be implemented”. – Dixie Lee Ray
 “Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed
government regulation”? – Gale Norton
 “The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of
a conservation ethic in our culture”. – Gaylord Nelso

Why World Environment Day is Celebrated
World environment day annual celebration campaign was started to address
the huge environmental issues like wastage and losses of food, deforestation,
increasing global warming and so many. Every year celebration is planned
according to the particular theme and slogan of the year to bring effectiveness
in the campaign all through the world.
It is celebrated to successfully get carbon neutrality, focusing on the forest
management, reducing greenhouse effects, promoting bio-fuels production by
planting on degraded lands, use of hydro-power to enhance electricity
production, encourage common public to use solar water heaters, energy
production through solar sources, developing new drainage systems, promoting
coral reefs and mangroves restoration in order to get prevented from flooding
and erosion including other ways of environmental preservation

Objectives of WED
Some of the objectives of the world environment day campaign are mentioned
below:
 It is celebrated to make aware the common public about the environmental
issues.
 Encourage common people from different society and communities to actively
participate in the celebration as well as become an active agent in developing
environmental safety measures.
 Let them know that community people are very essential to inhibit negative
changes towards the environmental issues.
 Encourage people to make their nearby surroundings safe and clean to enjoy
safer, cleaner and more prosperous future.

World Environment Day
World Environment Day is the United Nations’ campaign for encouraging
worldwide awareness and action for the environment. Over the years it has
grown to be a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated by
stakeholders in over 100 countries. It also serves as the people’s day for doing
something positive for the environment, inspiring individual actions into a
collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet.

World Environment Day (WED)
 World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that aims to be the biggest
and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED
activities take place all year round but climax on 5 June every year.
 WED celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main
vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the
environment and encourages political attention and action.
 Through WED, the UN Environment Programme is able to personalize
environmental issues and enable everyone to realise not only their
responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of
sustainable and equitable development.
 WED is also a day for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a
cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.

WED date
 World Environment Day is held each year on June 5. It is one of the principal
vehicles through which the United Nations (UN) stimulates worldwide
awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.
 World environment day 2015 would be celebrated by the people all across the
world on 5th of June, at Friday.

Theme of 5th Jne 2015
 Every year, the United Nations Environment Program honors World
Environment Day on June 5 to raise awareness about environmental issues and
call for action. The UN Environment Program just announced the theme of this
year’s event: sustainable lifestyles.
 The topic is a particularly powerful one, because there’s room for everyone to
take a moment to question how we live and how it impacts the planet. The
theme asks everyone to evaluate our consumer habits: how we shop, eat and
travel.
 The UN Environment Programme says creating more sustainable lifestyles
is crucial: he 2015 theme for World Environment Day is "Seven Billion
Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care." The Milano expo theme for the
year's WED is "Feeding the planet, Energy for life

Environment VS Population
“By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same
and with a rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three
planets to sustain our way of life. Living well within planetary boundaries is the
most promising strategy for ensuring a healthy future.”

What do people do?
World Environment Day is celebrated in many ways in countries such as
Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, Spain and the United States. Activities include
street rallies and parades, as well as concerts, tree planting, and clean-up
campaigns. In many countries, this annual event is used to enhance political
attention and action towards improving the environment. This observance also
provides an opportunity to sign or ratify international environmental
conventions.

Public life and Back ground
The UN World Environment Day is not a public holiday, so public life is
not affected.
Background
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General
Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the
Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly
the same day, led to the creation of UNEP. It is hosted every year by a
different city and commemorated with an international exposition through
the week of June 5

Symbols
The main colors featured in many promotions for this event are natural colors
depicting nature, the earth and its natural resources. These colors are often
softer shades of green, brown and blue. Images of natural the earth's features,
such as snowy mountains, clean beaches, unpolluted rivers, and photos of
natural flora and fauna, including fern leaves, are used to promote campaigns
supporting the day.

World Environment Day Observances
Key Messages
 Globally, we are extracting more resources to produce goods
and services than our planet can replenish.
 The result is that economic growth and social development
cannot be sustained with our current consumption and
production patterns.
 One of the greatest challenges facing humanity today is to
maintain healthy growth rates to lift the world’s one billion
out of absolute poverty and carefully manage the natural
resources required to sustain the expanding human
population that will reach nine billion by 2050 – all while
keeping environmental impacts within acceptable limits and
sustaining life’s natural support system. • To meet this
challenge we need to transition to more efficient and
sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns.

World Environment Day Observances
Key Messages
 SCP is a pattern of behaviors that aims to reduce negative
environmental impacts and help meet human needs by producing
more and better with less resources and fewer negative impacts.
 The most promising strategy for achieving SCP is to “decouple”
economic growth from the rising rates of natural resource use and
the environmental impacts that occur in both consumption and
production stages of product life cycles.
 There are concerted international efforts to achieve decoupling. In
2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20),
countries formally adopted the 10-year framework of programmes
on sustainable consumption and production patterns (10YFP),
which aims to enhance international cooperation to accelerate the
shift towards SCP patterns in both developed and developing
countries.

Sustainable production
UNEP research shows that in many countries, economic growth and
development has been hampered by the rising economic and environmental
costs of resource depletion and negative environmental impacts. There is
therefore a need for a policy response that commits both governments and
industries to reduce the amount of resources used for each unit of production
and reduce negative impacts on the environment (i.e. increase “decoupling”).
Sustainable Production is about a continuous application of an integrated and
preventive environmental strategy to produce goods and services more
efficiently with lower risks to humans and the environment. Using scarce
resources more efficiently is also a key building block in meeting the needs of a
growing and increasingly urban world population.

UNEP defines resource efficiency as a reduction in the total environmental impact of the
production and consumption of goods and services - from raw material extraction to final
use and disposal. Resource efficiency can help us meet human needs while respecting the
ecological carrying capacity of the earth. It can also directly benefit businesses seeking to
lower production costs. Since resource inputs represent an important cost of production
for industries, efficiency improvements can be a significant lever for competitive
advantage. Investments in improving resource efficiency and recycling reduce the
demand for energy, water and virgin resources, thus reducing the need to invest billions
on new energy and water supply infrastructure. The International Energy Agency (IEA)
estimates that, if countries focused on boosting energy efficiency, they could not only
provide a 10 per cent reduction in global energy demand by 2030 but also save USD 560
billion.

The global waste market, from collection to recycling, is estimated at USD 410
billion a year, not including the informal segment in developing countries.
Recycling is likely to grow steadily and form a vital component of greener waste
management systems, which can also provide decent employment. While
currently only 25 per cent of waste is recovered or recycled, under the green
investment scenario modelled in the Green Economy Report, the amount of
waste destined for landfills would be considerably reduced, implying the
development and expansion of new market opportunities.

Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.
 The well-being of humanity, the environment, and the functioning of the economy,
ultimately depend upon the responsible management of the planet’s natural resources.
Evidence is building that people are consuming far more natural resources than what
the planet can sustainably provide.
 Many of the Earth’s ecosystems are nearing critical tipping points of depletion or
irreversible change, pushed by high population growth and economic development. By
2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same and with a
rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain
our ways of living and consumption.
 The WED theme this year is therefore "Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume
with Care." Living within planetary boundaries is the most promising strategy for
ensuring a healthy future. Human prosperity need not cost the earth. Living
sustainably is about doing more and better with less. It is about knowing that rising
rates of natural resource use and the environmental impacts that occur are not a
necessary by-product of economic growth.

10 Things You Can Do to Reduce Global
Warming
1. Reduce , reuse and recycle
2. Use less heat and air conditioning
3. Change a light bulb
4. Drive less and drive smart
5. Buy energy efficient productds
6. Use less hot water
7. Use the off Switch
8. Plant a tree
9. Get a report card from utility company
10. Encourage others to conserve

Five Things to Control environment
1. Control population
2. Use less water and keep it clean
3. Eat responsibly
4. Conserve energy and switch to renewable energy
5. Reduce your carbon foot print

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