This holiday is one of the ways to attract the attention of ordinary people and the powerful of this world to the issues of preserving the environment and solving a number of problems. Moreover, the World Environment Day is not just beautiful words and slogans, but quite real politically directed actions with the aim of preserving the most expensive that we have - ecology.
International Day of Environmental Protection - the idea of a holiday
In 1972, on June 5, this holiday was established at a conference in Stockholm on environmental issues. It was this date that was made the World Environment Day.
As a result, World Environment Day became a symbol of the unification of mankind for the preservation of ecology. The purpose of the holiday is to inform everyone that we can change the situation with mass pollution and destruction of the ecological sector. It is no secret that the impact of various anthropogenic factors significantly and every year the damage significantly increases. That is why the International Day of Environmental Protection is held under different slogans. Every year, various issues are touched upon from the list of the most urgent and problematic issues in the world today. Earlier, the World Environment Day touched on the themes of global warming, melting of ice and even the conservation of rare species on Earth.
In different countries this day is accompanied by various street rallies, parades of bicyclists. Organizers hold so-called "green concerts". In schools and universities, competitions are organized for the most original idea on conservation of nature. Among junior classes hold posters competitions on the theme of environmental protection. Often on this day the pupils are cleaning up the school grounds and planting trees .
World Environment Day - recent events
In 2013 World Environment Day is celebrated under the slogan "Reduce food losses!". The paradox, but with a huge number of people who die every year from hunger, on our planet about 1.3 billion tons of products are wasted. In other words, we are throwing away food that could feed all the hungry countries in Africa.
World Environment Day in 2013 was another step towards the rational use of resources on earth. The YouthXchange program is the result of the joint work of UNESCO and UNEP - the next item in teaching young people the rational and careful use of products, as well as another way to change the thinking of young minds.