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Climate Change, Tourism and World Environment Day 2008

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The focus of World Environment Day 2008 is climate change and low carbon economies.

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PHOTO GALLERY: World Environment Day Group

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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.

Planeta.com founder Ron Mader is announce the winner of this year's Colibri Ecotourism Award and discuss developments in Ecotourism 2.0 with the Sustainable Tourism Business Seminar in Queenstown.

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 New Zealand, signage touting environmental messages, photos of earth, photos showing low carbon lifestyles and book covers of recommended environmental books. Join the group or subscribe to the RSS feeds.

World Environment Day Survey

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.

COLIBRI ECOTOURISM AWARD

As part of the global celebration of World Environment Day, Planeta.com presents the eighth annual Colibri Ecotourism Award to a leader working toward responsible travel and ecotourism in Mexico.