All You Need To Know About World Environment Day, 2022

World Environment Day is a day set aside to be celebrated on June 5 each year, led by the United Nations Environment Programme.

World Environment day seeks to raise awareness about the degrading environment and encourage people to take positive actions and help create a better future.

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The theme for this year’s world environment day is ‘Only One Earth’ with its conference holding in Sweden.

The theme for last year’s World Environment day was ‘Ecosystem Restoration’ with it’s conference in Pakistan.

It was duly observed that mankind’s progress in the last century has been accompanied by a massive increase in natural resource exploitation.

Each decade has seen an incremental increase in environmental issues from marine pollution and climate change to the depletion of flora and fauna.

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference) in 1972 became the first global conference with the environment as its major agenda. At the conference, the right to live in a healthy environment was declared as a basic human right. The Stockholm Conference formalised the idea of World Environment Day. It also witnessed the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Over the years, World Environment Day has become a global platform for people to participate in campaigns to spread awareness about environmental protection. The day is celebrated every year according to a specific theme and slogan that address the major environmental concern of the time. Each year, a different country hosts the event.

This year presents a historic milestone, marking 50 years since the Stockholm Conference. Sweden is the host country of World Environment Day, 2022, with ‘Only One Earth’ — focussing on living sustainably in harmony with nature — as the theme.

World Environment Day is being observed at a time the planet is facing multiple crises — from climate change to biodiversity loss and an increase in carbon emissions.

This day reminds people of the power at the grassroot and community levels to bring about positive change by making better choices and keeping a check on government and corporate policies that damage the biosphere. 

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