World Environment Day is supported by non-governmental organisations, businesses, government agencies, and a multitude of others, and is main UN Day for outreach on behalf of the environment. The first WED was held in 1973, and has been a catalyst to raise awareness on many environmental issues, including marine pollution, overpopulation, global warming, sustainable development and wildlife crime. An international platform for public outreach, WED exemplified participation in over 143 countries around the world. Each year the program has had a theme and a forum to mobilize non-governmental organisations, businesses, communities, politicians, and celebrities to promote certain environmental issues. WED was originally declared by UNESCO in 1972, at the UN conference on the Human Environment, which came about as a result of conversations about people's interactions with environment. The first WED was held in 1973, and had the theme 'Only one earth'.
World Environment Day also allows governments, businesses, communities, and individuals to come together for the sustainable future our planet deserves. There is a wide range of reasons to celebrate WED: -
A. Having an Environmental Focus:- WED provides a focus on environmental issues, helping to raise awareness about environmental issues like pollution, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and patterns of sustainable consumption to name but a few.
B. Encouraging WED Action:- to encourage citizens to take independent and collective action in response to, and with an awareness of these environmental issues, encouraging articulated pathways to environmentally responsible behaviours, supporting sustainable policies, taking part in campaigns and recouping environmental degradation, while being stewards for the future of our planet.
C. Promoting a Platform for Collaborative action-- WED can be used to promote and enable collaborative action directed toward environmental issues, bringing together governments, organisations, businesses, communities, and others to find sustainable solutions, to share best practices, to initiate systematic change.
D. Innovation inspiration: In some cases, WED can be used to inspire innovation and creativity, whilst looking for solutions to environmental challenges through technological innovation, policy innovation, or developing community based actions.
E. Sustainability promotion: In conclusion WED is ultimately about promoting sustainable development.
Sustainable development is founded on the understanding that environmental protection and human well-being are interrelated; it embodies better living lives for humanity today without losing the benefit of that protection and quality of life for the next generation that will populate this planet. WED represents global efforts to achieve a responsible and protective planet for our grandest children and grandchildren. Importantly, World Environment Day (WED) is the world's most colourful and exciting day of environmental action. This translates to WED calls on as many people as possible to take action to save the earth from increasing stress. Annually WED has a theme to support and inspire the celebrations of WED. WED's theme for 2025 is the "Ending global plastics pollution" campaign. This will be the most relevant theme if not ahead of and preceding this discussion that all of us are faced with regarding plastics pollution, especially, as we ALL should be doing serious action regarding plastics pollution to save humanity destined to be consumed by the world of plastics pollution. On WED, the United Nations took the lead in calling on all global citizens to become aware of the environmental protection actions they must undertake and then of course, to change their actions to be environmentally responsible in every aspect of their lives. The environment involves every living organism and their habitat.
A healthy environment is one that can be maintained for a very long period. It is the place we all inhabit. It dictates everyone's life; it facilitates appropriate growth and development. The celebration of World Environment Day is intended to raise awareness regarding protecting our environment and nature. It serves as a reminder to help our planet by saving trees, reducing pollution, and making better use of resources. On this day, we also take part in planting trees and encourage others to plant more and more trees, our clean oxygen source necessary for every living being. It is a special day and a good reminder to act as stewards of our natural resources, reduce pollution, and incorporate practices to protect our world from global warming so it can be healthy and habitable for humans to prosper and lead happy lives. WED is now the world's largest environmental outreach initiative yielding engagement from over 150 countries to address the world's worst environmental issues. WED joins together millions of people across the planet that are addressing and restoring our planet, which in turn empowers governments, businesses, communities and individuals to change the world for the better. Every year on June 5th, we ask hundreds of millions of people around the world to mobilize for a call to action to save our planet. To work on the climate crisis and minimize the effects of climate change by incorporating good environmental stewardship practices. Our biodiversity is in crisis. Extinction rates are at their highest in 1000 years, 1 million of the 8 million species are facing extinction.
Air pollution is among the most lethal hazards affecting global populations. Currently 2 billion people, or roughly one-third of the population, reside in areas where any kind of waste disposal or disposal system is not available. None of the existing waste disposal systems will fully recover by 2025 and two-thirds (66%) of the population will face water stressed situations. The WED theme for 2025 ending plastic pollution is the most appropriate you could select and all of us need to take the necessary steps to limit plastic pollution. We can begin by forming a habit to take a market bag or shopping bag made of gunny or cloth with us to the marketplace, and not to take from shop keepers items in plastic bags that are provided to us. Plastic items do not break down for hundreds of years. They harm wildlife, they pollute our oceans, example the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is more than half the size of the United States, and they eventually, add plastics of all kinds even microplastics, to our food and water as they all end up back with us in a cyclical process. All of us need to continue the current unite to act and do everything we can to mitigate plastic pollution, in our own best interest but on behalf of all future generations. We could start with refusing single-use plastics that at this time in your life you think you can, with a bag that you brought to the market or shopping or anything take others to advocate for it and encourage Government and industry to seek eco-friendly alternatives with which to replace.
Our theme this year is also very relevant and timely and we hope we will have a large degree of control over plastic pollution. Environmental protection is very important and the worlds' people need to start manipulating their surroundings including earth, natural beauty wildlife, mountains, forests, streams, rivers, flora, fauna, vegetation, meadows, etc. It should be the intention of all to preserve and protect the environment for themselves and their children's children. Men should change nothing that damages and destroys life nourishing ecology and environmental patterns. All of the religions teach us to protect the environment and protecting the environment, whether you are religious or not, is the appropriate conduct in our religions for your own sake. Hinduism teaches us spectacularly to protect the environment and Hinduism is a religion that worships nature and includes all forms of nature including mountains, trees, rivers and rivulets as part of their traditions and rituals.
Hinduism teaches us to respect and revere the environment and if we do respect and honour the environment it is not our place to do anything that disturbs and creates any imbalances in the natural world. First off, we should be educating people around us that we need to preserve and protect the environment and this is the reason environmental studies is part of the school's curriculum. We should not disturb the natural habitats, environment or wildlife but maintain, preserve and protect them for our benefits. Saints, saints and thinkers have also cautioned us about the need to be environmentally friendly and the responsibility we owe to protect and care for the environment. Sheikh Noor -ud-din Nooorani who is known as Nund Rish many years ago said Ann Pushi tele Yeli Van Pushi, which can only be translated food grains will last when jungles are protected. Hinduism teaches us to honour nature in its various forms. We can say that WED we can make a pledge to preserve, protect the environment and commit to a direction of minimising the pollution plastics cause.
0 Comments