Today marks World Environment Day
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World Environment Day, annually celebrated on June 5, is one of the main ways for the United Nations to attract world attention to environmental problems, as well as to stimulate political interest and appropriate actions aimed at protecting the environment.
The holiday was established in accordance with the resolution adopted in June 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Environment (Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment). The celebration of this Day is designed to awaken in each person the desire to contribute to the protection of the environment.
In other words, it is necessary to give the peoples of the world the opportunity to actively promote sustainable and equitable development, to promote understanding that the main driving force for changing approaches to environmental issues is ourselves, our society. And also to explain the usefulness of partnership relations, so that all countries and peoples have a safer and prosperous future.
World Environment Day is a "people's event", accompanied by colorful performances such as street rallies, cyclist parades, "green" concerts, essay and poster competitions in schools, planting trees, as well as recycling and cleaning campaigns.