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World Environment Day, celebrated annually on 5 June, is one of the main ways for the United Nations to draw global attention to environmental issues and to stimulate political interest and action to protect the environment.
The holiday was established by a resolution adopted in June 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. The celebration of this day is intended to awaken in every person the desire to contribute to the protection of the environment.
In other words, we need to empower the peoples of the world to actively promote sustainable and equitable development, to promote understanding that we ourselves, our society, are the main driving force behind changing approaches to environmental issues, and to explain the benefits of partnerships so that all countries and peoples have a safer and more prosperous future.
World Environment Day is a "people's event" with colourful spectacles such as street rallies, bicycle parades, "green" concerts, essay and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, and waste recycling and clean-up campaigns.