| Mark your calendar! World Environment
Day is June 5.
This year's focus is climate
change and low carbon economies. The host for the 2008 event
is Wellington,
New Zealand.
YOUR TURN - You can contribute photos to the
World
Environment Day group on Flickr. The group solicits photos
from World Environment Day events around the world, the official
event in Wellington, signage touting environmental messages, photos
of earth, photos showing low carbon lifestyles and book covers
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World Environment
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HISTORY OF WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
In 1972 the United Nations General Assembly established the first
World Environment Day to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference
on the Human Environment.
"Stockholm
was without doubt the landmark event in the growth of international
environmentalism," writes John McCormick in Reclaiming
Paradise. "It was the first occasion on which the political,
social and economic problems of the global environment were discussed
at an intergovernmental forum with a view to actually taking corrective
action."
Another resolution led to the creation of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
More details about World Environment Day online the UNEP
website.
2008
World
Environment Day 2008 - NZ Live
World
Environment Day 2008 - Sustainability Government
World
Environment Day 2008 - Ministry of the Environment
World
Environment Day - New Zealand Ministry for the Environment
World
Environment Day 2008 to be Hosted by New Zealand with Focus on
Fostering Low-Carbon Economies - UNEP
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY LINKS
World Environment
Day - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
World
Environment Day - Newsgoogled
World
Environment Day - Wikipedia
FLICKR
Group:
World Environment Day
ONLINE
FLICKR
WIKI
World
Environment Day
ONLINE
WIKI
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP)
UNESCO
Web Tour - Planeta Forum
CBD
Web Tour - Planeta Forum
Integrating
Biodiversity into the Tourism Sector
Sustainable
Development of Ecotourism Conference
Ecotourism
- UNEP
United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Program
for the Environment (Latin America)
Tecnologia,
Industria y Economia - UNEP
Turismo
Sustentable - UNEP
UNEP Geneva Programs
Billion
Tree Campaign
UNEP Net
UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY THEMES
2008 – Low-Carbon Economies
2007 – Melting Ice
2006 – Deserts and Desertification
2005 – Green Citie
2004 – Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?
2003 – Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!
2002 - Give Earth a Chance
2001 - Connect with the World Wide Web of Life
2000 - The Environment Millennium - Time to Act
1999 - Our Earth - Our Future
1998 - For Life on Earth - Save Our Seas
1997 - For Life on Earth
1996 - Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home
1995 - We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment
1994 - One Earth One Family
1993 - Poverty and the Environment - Breaking the Vicious Circle
1992 - Only One Earth, Care and Share
1991 - Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership
1990 - Children and the Environment
1989 - Global Warming; Global Warning
1988 - When People Put the Environment First, Development Will
Last
1987 - Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof
1986 - A Tree for Peace
1985 - Youth: Population and the Environment
1984 - Desertification
1983 - Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy
1982 - Ten Years After Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)
1981 - Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains
1980 - A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development Without
Destruction
1979 - Only One Future for Our Children - Development Without
Destruction
1978 - Development Without Destruction
1977 - Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil
Degradation
1976 - Water: Vital Resource for Life
1975 - Human Settlements
1974 - Only one Earth |
