THE COLLAGE OF THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY-2015

THE COLLAGE OF THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY-2015

The UN Environment Programme says -

“By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same and with a rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain our way of life. Living well within planetary boundaries is the most promising strategy for ensuring a healthy future.”This is the key message for the World Environment Day-2015.

World Environment Day (also called as WED) has been started celebrating as an annual event on every 5^th of June since 1973 in order to raise the global awareness about the importance of the healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the environmental issues by implementing some positive environmental actions as well as to make aware common public worldwide that everyone is responsible for saving his environment and not only somebody, government or organizations working for it.
World environment day was first established to be celebrated every year by running some effective campaigns by the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the conference on Human Environment began from 5^th to 16^th of June at United Nations in 1972. It was first time celebrated in 1973 with the particular theme “Only one Earth”. Since 1974, the celebration campaign of the world environment day is hosted in different cities of the world.

Some of the objectives of the world environment day campaign are mentioned below:

• It is celebrated to make aware the common public about the environmental issues.
• Encourage common people from different society and communities to actively participate in the celebration as well as become an active agent in developing environmental safety measures.
• Let them know that community people are very essential to inhibit negative changes towards the environmental issues.
• Encourage people to make their nearby surroundings safe and clean to enjoy safer, cleaner and more prosperous future.

·         "Earth Anthem" by poet-diplomat Abhay K was launched in June 2013 on the occasion of the World Environment Day by Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor, Union Ministers of India at a function organized by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi.

World Environment Day Anthem is as follows:

Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl

the most beautiful planet in the universe

all the continents and the oceans of the world

united we stand as flora and fauna

united we stand as species of one earth

black, brown, white, different colours

we are humans, the earth is our home.

Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl

the most beautiful planet in the universe

all the people and the nations of the world

all for one and one for all

united we unfurl the blue marble flag

black, brown, white, different colours

we are humans, the earth is our home.

The theme of the year 2015 would be “One World, One Environment”.It needs lots of environmental policies , climate change negotiations, institutional cooperation, and a good climate finance for the world as whole. 

Italy will serve as the host of WED 2015 and the global WED celebrations will be organized at the Milan Expo. Celebrations at the Milan Expo will complement the Expo's theme, ‘Feeding the Planet—Energy for Life,'The WED 2015 programme at the Milan Expo will also involve activities with partners such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), Slow Food, WWF Italy and the Green Film Network.In Milan, Theme : Sustainable Consumption and Production" and Slogan: Seven Billion dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care in 2015.

Top ten quotes to mark World Environment Day 2015.

• "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." – Mahatma Gandhi
• "The environment is everything that isn't me." – Albert Einstein
• "The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness." - Khalil Gibran
• "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." – John Muir
• "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." – Aldo Leopold
• "I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment." – Pat Buckley
• "We must return to nature and nature's god." – Luther Burbank
• "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either." – Joseph Wood Krutch
• "Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble." – Roger Tory Peterson
• "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." – Margaret Mead

We should remember that the  Top 10 polluted city are given below following the measurement of WHO.

The WHO examined the concentration of fine particles suspended in the atmosphere. It advises that fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter (PM2.5) should not exceed 10 micrograms per cubic metre.

Delhi, India (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 153)

Patna, India (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 149)

Gwalior, India (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 144)

Raipur, India (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 134)

Karachi, Pakistan (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 117)

Peshawar, Pakistan (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 111)

Rawalpindi, Pakistan (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 107)

Khorramabad, Iran (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 102)

Ahmedabad, India (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 100)

Lucknow, India (annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3: 96)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling at his official residence 7, Race Course Road on World Environment Day on Friday, officials said. Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said cricketer Virat Kohli and wrestler Sushil Kumar will take part in a function to plant saplings at Paryavaran Bhavan.