The 2014 theme for World Environment Day ‘Raise Your Voice
Not The Sea Level’/June 5th World Environment Day
World Environment Day is a yearly
event held to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental
action. Known as WED for short, it is run by the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) and is really a climax of environmental activities being
undertaken all year round by UNEP and other organizations and individuals
around the world.
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 on
the day that United Nations Conference on the
Human Environment began. The first World Environment Day was
celebrated in 1973. Since then it is hosted every year by a different city with
a different theme.
World Environment Day falls in spring in the Northern Hemisphere and fall in the Southern Hemisphere, and midsummer in the Tropical regions.
"Stockholm was without a doubt the landmark event in
the growth of international environmentalism", writes John McCormick in
the book Reclaiming Paradise. "It was the first occasion on which the
political, social and economic problems of the global environment were
discussed at an intergovernmental forum with a view to actually taking
corrective action."
The 2014 theme for World Environment Day will focus on
'Small Islands and Climate Change', the official slogan for the year 2014 is ‘Raise Your Voice Not The Sea Level’.
The 2013 theme for World Environment Day was Think.Eat.Save.
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