Climate and Environment

“Change the texture of your thoughts & your life will change. The future is
not something we await, It is something we create.”
Dr. Vinitaa Apte

World Environment Day

On this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, the UN is drawing links between the health of the
planet, and human health, and highlighting the importance protecting biodiversity, the system that supports life

Individuals, communities, civil society, businesses and governments around the

world today marked World Environment Day with a focus on solutions to
plastic pollution, with official celebrations held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, with
the support of the Netherlands. The focus on solutions to plastic pollution this
World Environment Day is particularly timely, following the recent conclusion
of a second round of negotiations on a global agreement to end plastic pollution
in France.2023 marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, after it
was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972.

Human activities have an adverse effect on the environment by polluting the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the soil in
which plants grow. Although the industrial revolution was a great success in terms of technology, society, and the provision of
multiple services, it also introduced the production of huge quantities of pollutants emitted into the air that are harmful to human
health.
Without any doubt, the global environmental pollution is considered an international public health issue with
multiple facets. Social, economic, and legislative concerns and lifestyle habits are related to this major problem.
Clearly, urbanization and industrialization are reaching unprecedented and upsetting proportions worldwide in our
era. Anthropogenic air pollution is one of the biggest public health hazards worldwide, given that it accounts for
about 9 million deaths per year.

Human activities have an adverse effect on the environment by polluting the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the soil in which