World Environment Day 2020

World Environment Day is observed on 5 June to create awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

The theme for the 2020 World Environment Day is ‘Biodiversity’. The theme focuses on a concern that is both urgent and existential.

The theme was based on the recent events including bushfires in Brazil, the United States, and Australia; locust infestations across East Africa; a global disease pandemic COVID-19.

These have demonstrated the interdependence of humans and the webs of life, in which they exist.

In 1972, the United Nations convened the first major conference on environmental issues from June 5-16 in Stockholm, Sweden.

It is known as the Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference) its goal was to forge a basic common outlook on how to address the challenge of preserving and enhancing the human environment.