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.
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