PURPOSE: The United Nations designated 5 June as World Environment Day to highlight the protection and health of the environment as major issue; The degradation of the environment affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world. The celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment.
FORUM: “Solutions to plastic pollution.’’ World Environment Day 2023. The dicussions will focus on solutions to plastic pollution and to remind us why plastic pollution matters. The steps governments and businesses are taking to tackle plastic pollution are the consequence of this action. It is time to accelerate this action and transition to a circular economy. It is time to beat plastic pollution. Plastic has been a solution. It has given humanity: convenience, affordability, utility. However, the durability of plastic is both its benefit and its curse. Plastic pollution endures. It’s suffocating our planet. We have seen solutions that work: rejecting single-use plastics, enforcing bans on single-use plastics, creating circular and sustainable alternatives, managing plastic waste more efficiently. Follow the Conversations with the hashtags: #5june, #WorldEnvironmentDay, #beatplasticpollution, #Environment.
EVENTS: As host for 2023, The Ivory Coast Republic will celebrate the official World Environment Day ceremony in Abidjan, which started at 11:30AM CET and lasting one hour. Ivory Coast ’s Minister for Climate and the Environment and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen will held a conference: A special programme with workshops, panel discussions, roundtables and clean up activities will be organized .Join people around the world with actions during the following WED 2023 events, and share your impact with the world.
STATEMENTS:Message from the United Nations Secretary-General on World Environment Day 2023; June 5h.
PODCASTS: We are using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our current way of life, and ecosystems cannot keep up with our demands. The gap between what we need to spend to adapt and what we are actually spending is widening. Estimated costs of adaptation continue to rise and could reach US$280-500 billion per year by 2050 for developing countries alone. Individuals and civil society must play a key role in raising awareness and urging governments and the private sector to make large-scale changes. Listen to the audio Podcasts!
CAMPAIGN MATERIALS: The 2023 World Environment Day campaign calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale to tackle environmental plastics pollution. View the pratical Guide and Get the campaign materials!
WHY WE CELEBRATE THE DAY?
HOW TO GET INVOLVED!
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The World Environment Day aims to inspire more people than ever before to take action to prevent the growing strain on planet Earth's natural resources. The natural environment suffers, for example, from lack of precipitation for extended periods and uncontrolled land use, leading to desertification. It is estimated that one-third of the Earth’s surface and one-fifth of the world’s population are threatened by desertification. The WMO, therefore, directs its attention to the aspects of climate variability and change that impact the environment. The observational data of weather, climate and the atmosphere that are collected through the WMO networks of observing, data-transmitting and forecasting systems keep policy-makers informed of the state of the environment so that they are in a better position to prevent its further degradation and are used by used by the IPCC in its assessments of climate climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Together, let’s create systems to better reuse, reduce and recycle. Together, Let’s push for an ambitious global agreement to end plastic pollution. Together, Let’s demand governments and businesses act, commit and set new standards. Use your voice and your choice to beat plastic pollution; Let’s do better.
Thousands of people around the world used events and actions to build and share their Earth Action Number with the world.
Raise awareness about the protection and the conservation of the environment.
Talk about all issues concerning the environment.
Tackle the causes of climate change, and increasing our ability to adapt.
Work together to ensure nature is conserved, sustainably used, and restored.
Prevent, control, and manage pollution -whether its air, water, soil and land, marine and coastal, or chemicals and waste.
Organize activities to clean our environment.
Restore the environment.
The World Environment Day is co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment (GURME), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), the UN-Water, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the United Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Biodiversity, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the UN-Oceans the CITES Secretariat, the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor), the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFFF). With the collaboration of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Rivers International, the Ramsar Secretariat. With the participation of the United Nations Member States, the Civil Society Organizations, the Non-Governmental Organizations, the Activists, the Artivists, the Environmentalists, the biologists, the geologists, the Ecologists, the Climatologists, the Philanthropists, the Researchers and academics.