World Environment Day 2024🌳🌳

- June 05, 2024

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5. It is a global event led by the United Nations to encourage awareness and action to protect the environment. The day aims to raise awareness about environmental issues and inspire people and governments to take action to protect the planet.

History

World Environment Day was started back in 1972. That's when the United Nations, a group of many countries working together, decided a special day was needed to raise awareness about environmental issues. Since then, the day has grown into a massive global event!It began with the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 5th. This conference started with important talks about protecting the environment. To mark this event, the first World Environment Day was celebrated a year later, in 1973. Since then, it has been celebrated every year on June 5th.

The 2024 edition of World Environment Day will focus on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience, under the slogan “Our Land. Our Future. We are #GenerationRestoration”, as the year marks the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, up to 40 per cent of the planet’s land is degraded, directly affecting half of the world’s population and threatening roughly half of global GDP (US$44 trillion). The number and duration of droughts has increased by 29 per cent since 2000 – without urgent action, droughts may affect over three-quarters of the world’s population by 2050.

Land restoration is a key pillar of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, which is critical to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Govt College of Teacher Education celebrated Environmental Day on June 5th, 2024, in General Hall 1. Daya Baburaj delivered the prayer song. Aslamiya from the first year B.Ed. Natural Science welcomed everyone. The presidential address was delivered by our college principal, Dr. A. V. Sujith. He mentioned the different layers of the Earth and the importance of this particular day. The inauguration was done by the ward councillor, Mr. G. Madav Das. He also mentioned the importance of this day by citing some incidents in his locality. We honoured the workers of Harithakarma Sena. The resource talk was given by Dr. Sujith V. Gopalan, who emphasized many important topics such as climate change, the importance of ecosystem restoration, the concept of the food web, and invasive species. The resource talk was really informative and useful❤️. Shyba teacher and Amal R. (College Union Chairman) delivered the felicitation speeches.