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: “Beat Plastic Pollution.” World Environment Day 2025. Plastic pollution exacerbates the deadly impacts of the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change, the crisis of nature, land and biodiversity loss, and the crisis of pollution and waste. Globally, an estimated 11 million tonnes of plastic waste leak into aquatic ecosystems each year, while microplastics accumulate in the soil from sewage and landfills, due to the use of plastics in agricultural products. The annual social and environmental cost of plastic pollution ranges between US$300 billion and US$600 billion. The observance this year will focus on ending plastic pollution. For decades, plastic pollution has seeped into every corner of the world, leaching into the water we drink, into the food we eat, and our bodies. While plastic pollution is a major concern, it is also one of the most fixable of today’s environmental challenges, with some obvious solutions at hand. World Environment Day joins the UNEP-led #BeatPlasticPollution this year to mobilize communities worldwide to implement and advocate for solutions. World Environment Day will spotlight the growing scientific evidence on the impacts of plastic pollution and drive momentum to refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink plastics use. It will also reinforce the global commitment made in 2022 to end plastic pollution through a global plastic pollution treaty. Follow the Conversations with the hashtags: #5june, #WorldEnvironmentDay, #beatplasticpollution, #Environment.
EVENTS: The Republic of Korea will host the World Environment Day 2025 celebrations. On thursday, 05 June 2025 from 13:00 to 15:00 hrs ICT (GMT+7); The UN Environment programme with the support of partner will celebrate the World Environment Day (WED) under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. This year’s observance comes as countries make progress towards securing a global treaty to end plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. In November 2024, the Republic of Korea hosted the fifth session of negotiations to develop a plastic pollution treaty. The second part of the session will take place from 5 to 14 August in Geneva, Switzerland. To join the online celebrations; Register to participate and Tune up to watch the livestream!
STATEMENTS: Read the Statement of the United Nations Secretary-General on World Environment Day 2025; June 5th and the Statement from the UNEP Executive Director on World Environment Day 2025; June 5th.
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: World Environment Day 2025 is about delivering lasting solutions to Beat-Plastic-Pollution. Because real change doesn’t come from awareness alone; it comes through all of us: through markets, consumer choices, policy incentives, and finance flows. The 2025 campaign calls for collective, transformative action to end plastic pollution. Learn how everyone can help prevent plastic pollution; Explore the visual tools, View the practical Guide and Get the campaign materials!
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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.