World Environment Day , History ,Theme and Slogan :

Environment Day

World condition day is otherwise called the Environment Day, Eco Day or short shape WED. It has been one of the colossal yearly occasions for a considerable length of time which is being commended worldwide by the general population intending to ensure the one of a kind and life sustaining Nature on each fifth June.

Why World Environment Day is Celebrated

World condition day yearly festival crusade was begun to address the gigantic natural issues like wastage and misfortunes of nourishment, deforestation, expanding a worldwide temperature alteration thus many. Consistently festivity is arranged by the specific topic and motto of the year to acquire viability the crusade all through the world. 

It is praised to effectively get carbon lack of bias, concentrating on the woodland administration, diminishing nursery impacts, advancing bio-fills generation by planting on debased terrains, utilization of hydro-energy to improve power creation, urge basic open to utilize sun oriented water warmers, vitality creation through sunlight based sources, growing new seepage frameworks, advancing coral reefs and mangroves reclamation keeping in mind the end goal to get kept from flooding and disintegration including different methods for natural conservation. A portion of the targets of the world condition day crusade are said beneath: 

• It is commended to make mindful the normal open about the ecological issues. 

• Support everyday citizens from various society and networks to effectively take an interest in the festival and also turn into a dynamic specialist in creating natural wellbeing measures. 

• Tell them that network individuals are extremely fundamental to repress negative changes towards the natural issues. 

• Urge individuals to make their adjacent surroundings sheltered and clean to appreciate more secure, cleaner and more prosperous future.

World Environment Day History

World Environment Day (additionally called as WED) has been begun celebrating as a yearly occasion on each fifth of June since 1973 keeping in mind the end goal to raise the worldwide mindfulness about the significance of the sound and green condition in the human lives, to fathom the natural issues by executing some positive ecological activities and also to make mindful normal open worldwide that everybody is in charge of sparing his condition and not just some person, government or associations working for it. 

World condition day was first settled to be praised each year by running some compelling efforts by the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in the gathering on Human Environment started from fifth to sixteenth of June at United Nations in 1972. It was first time celebrated in 1973 with the specific subject "Just a single Earth". Since 1974, the festival battle of the world condition day is facilitated in various urban communities of the world. 


It is a major yearly festival began by the United Nations General Assembly to connect with a large number of individuals from various nations over the globe and also draw consideration of political and wellbeing associations to actualize some compelling activities.

World Environment Day Theme and Slogan

• The theme of the year 2018 is “Beat Plastic Pollution”.
• The theme of the year 2017 was “Connecting People to Nature”.
• The theme of the year 2016 was “Zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife” (highlights the fight against the illegal trade in wildlife).
• The theme of the year 2015 was “One World, One Environment”.
• The theme of the year 2014 was “small island developing states” or “SIDS” and “Raise your voice, not the sea level”.
• The theme of the year 2013 was “Think. Eat. Save.” And slogan was “Reduce Your Foodprint”.
• The theme of the year 2012 was “Green Economy: Does it include you?”.
• The theme of the year 2011 was “Forests: Nature at your Service”.
• The theme of the year 2010 was “Many Species. One Planet. One Future”.
• The theme of the year 2009 was “Your Planet Needs You – Unite to Combat Climate Change”.
• The theme and slogan of the year 2008 was “CO2, Kick the Habit – Towards a Low Carbon Economy”.
• The theme of the year 2007 was “Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?”.
• The theme of the year 2006 was “Deserts and Desertification” and slogan was “Don’t Desert Drylands!.”
• The theme of the year 2005 was “Green Cities” and slogan was “Plan for the Planet!”.
• The theme of the year 2004 was “Wanted! Seas and Oceans” and slogan was “Dead or Alive?”.
• The theme of the year 2003 was “Water” and slogan was “Two Billion People are Dying for It!”.
• The theme of the year 2002 was “Give Earth a Chance”.
• The theme of the year 2001 was “Connect with the World Wide Web of Life”.
• The theme of the year 2000 was “The Environment Millennium” and slogan was “Time to Act”.
• The theme of the year 1999 was “Our Earth – Our Future” and slogan was “Just Save It!”.
• The theme of the year 1998 was “For Life on Earth and slogan was “Save Our Seas”.
• The theme of the year 1997 was “For Life on Earth”.
• The theme of the year 1996 was “Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home”.
• The theme of the year 1995 was “We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment”.
• The theme of the year 1994 was “One Earth One Family”.
• The theme of the year 1993 was “Poverty and the Environment and slogan was “Breaking the Vicious Circle”.
• The theme of the year 1992 was “Only One Earth, Care and Share”.
• The theme of the year 1991 was “Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership”.
• The theme of the year 1990 was “Children and the Environment”.
• The theme of the year 1989 was “Global Warming; Global Warning”.
• The theme of the year 1988 was “When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last”.
• The theme of the year 1987 was “Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof”.
• The theme of the year 1986 was “A Tree for Peace”.
• The theme of the year 1985 was “Youth: Population and the Environment”.
• The theme of the year 1984 was “Desertification”.
• The theme of the year 1983 was “Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy”.
• The theme of the year 1982 was “Ten Years after Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)”.
• The theme of the year 1981 was “Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains”.
• The theme of the year 1980 was “A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development without Destruction”.
• The theme of the year 1979 was “Only One Future for Our Children and slogan was “Development without Destruction”.
• The theme of the year 1978 was “Development without Destruction”.
• The theme of the year 1977 was “Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil Degradation”.
• The theme of the year 1976 was “Water: Vital Resource for Life”.
• The theme of the year 1975 was “Human Settlements”.
• The theme of the year 1974 was “Only one Earth during Expo ’74”.
• The theme of the year 1973 was “Only one Earth”.