World Environment Day

June 5 was declared as World Environment Day by the UN General Assembly in 1972. World Environment Day was established to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

United Nations designed World Environment Day as the main tool to create worldwide awareness about hot environment issues.

Main objectives of United Nations behind declaration of World Environment day was to give a human face to environmental issues, empower to become agents of sustainable and equitable development, promote to change attitude towards the environment and advocate partnership between each human being and each society to ensure a safe future.

World Environment Day is celebrated around the globe to promote alertness regarding scorching issues of environment pollution, drastic climatic changes, green house effect, global warming, black whole effect etc, among human beings on the planet Earth.

Each year, United Nations decide a host city to organize different events for the cause of celebration. Celebrations of World Environment Day each year are based on the particular theme declared by United Nations.

World Environment Day 2011

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has selected Pittsburgh in North America to host World Environment Day 2011 (WED 2011). Decided theme for the program of WED 2011 is “Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature”. Various events based on the theme will be scheduled for six weeks in a series from April 22, Earth Day to June 5, World Environment Day in Pittsburgh.

World Environment Day 2011 in India

India is taking a step forward in hosting the first ever “Green Common Wealth Games”, the country is taking initiative to organize Green Games in the 19th Commonwealth Games 2011 at Delhi. The organizing committee of the Common Wealth Games has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Environment Program.

This strategic intention has been initiated for supporting environmental activities by UNEP related to planning and staging of the XIX Commonwealth Games 2011 Delhi. UNEP has agreed to provide necessary technical support for the Games. Several measures in terms of energy efficiency, water conservation, etc., have been worked upon to lessen the carbon emissions from Games related activities.