World Environment Day 2024:
World Environment Day is celebrated on 5th June every year to encourage awareness and environmental protection.
- In a remarkable initiative to combat deforestation and restore biodiversity, two environmentalists have spearheaded the creation of India’s first biospheres within tiger reserves.
- The United Nations Assembly established World Environment Day in 1972, which was the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the human environment.
- World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year with a specific theme and slogan that focuses on the major environmental issues of that time.
- WED 2024 is hosted by Saudi Arabia.
- India hosted the 45th celebration of World Environment Day in 2018 under the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’.
- WED celebration in 2021 kicked off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) which is a global mission to revive billions of hectares, from forests to farmlands, from the top of mountains to the depth of the seas.
- The theme for 2024: Land Restoration, Desertification and Drought Resilience
- Year 2024 also marks the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
