It’s time to raise our voices to tell the world that we need action now.
This World Environment Day, it’s time for nature.
In the lead up to World Environment Day, we're featuring updates from United Nations System, from partners and from others helping to call attention to the fact that the future of humanity depends on action now.
Connect4Climate has launched a brand-new collective poem. Individual lines of poetry contributed by a global online audience are collated to form a unified reflection on why it’s time #ForNature. The poem is created through various social media channels and the posts can be found via the links below in order to contribute. The final poem, curated by poet and multi-media artist Ahmed Badr, will be released on World Environment Day, June 5.
Find the Instagram post here.
Find the Twitter post here.
In the spirit of harnessing the power of art to inspire environmental action, the 16th edition of the International Poster Biennial of Mexico and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) invite artists all over the world to submit their artworks on biodiversity before 15 June 2020.
For the past 30 years, around 70,000 posters from five continents have been submitted to this exhibition, which takes place in Mexico City.
This year, the contest’s environmental category supports the World Environment Day campaign #ForNature, which calls for urgent action to protect biodiversity.
Video can be watched by clicking here.
More information can be found by clicking here.
Con el objetivo de aprovechar el poder del arte para inspirar la acción ambiental, la décima sexta Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México y el Programa de la ONU para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) llaman a artistas de todo el mundo a presentar sus carteles sobre biodiversidad antes del 15 de junio de 2020.
Durante los últimos 30 años, alrededor de 70.000 carteles procedentes de los cinco continentes se han presentado a este concurso, que se realiza en la Ciudad de México.
Este año, la categoría ambiental del concurso apoya la campaña #PorLaNaturaleza del Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, un llamado urgente a la acción global para proteger la biodiversidad.
Más información: https://bit.ly/2ARE32n
What:
To celebrate International Biological Diversity Day you are invited to a webinar themed, Solving Crisis: Ecosystem-based Solutions to Biodiversity Loss and Links to COVID 19 Pandemic, as we plan to build back better through natural solutions.
Apart from effects on human health, COVID-19 has hit at a time where nature-based solutions were on the rise. 2020 was meant to be a year to ramp up our decade of action on ecosystem and biodiversity efforts. While we wait to flatten the curve, we still have to steer through biodiversity and the environmental consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
When: 22 May 2020 at 11:30 AM in Eastern Time (USA and Canada) and 15:30 (in UTC) via Zoom - Register here
More info here
To mark International Day of Biodiversity on 22 May 2020, ART 2030 will feature Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas work.
More info about: #ArtforaHealthyPlanet
ART 2030 is running a major campaign over the course of this year called #ArtforaHealthyPlanet, focusing on action for climate, environment, and biodiversity. This campaign will have a special emphasis on Earth Day, International Day of Biodiversity, World Environment Day, World Oceans Day and more.
ART 2030 works with art as the key to achieve the UN Global Goals by opening people's hearts, minds and imagination - to inspire action for a healthy and sustainable future.
For more information: www.ART2030.org
In April 2020 over 1.5 billion children were unable to go to school. Over fifty environmental and education experts, with the guidance and support of TED-Ed and UNEP, collaborated to launch #EarthSchool on 22 April.
EarthSchool shows off the wonder and mystery of our planet to children through a 30 day immersive environmental adventure.
What can we learn from termites about air conditioning? How can we partner with wolves to prevent soil erosion? This interactive adventure will leave you marveling at our planet and ready to take on the future.
Find out more here.
What: Valérie Plante, the Mayor of the City of Montréal and the ICLEI Global Ambassador for Local Biodiversity, released a letter for cities to reflect on their relationship with nature ahead of the International Day of Biodiversity and World Environment Day (WED). Montréal is the North American WED host city.
The letter is a call to action for mayors and leaders of local and sub-national governments to make commitments to protect nature, especially in post-COVID-19 recovery plans. The letter highlights ways leaders can take strong action to create healthy cities where people and nature can thrive harmoniously. About 2,000 Mayors and local community leaders received it.
The letter is available in English, French and Spanish.
More info can be found via this link.
What: 13th annual Eco-generation Environmental Essay competition.
When: NOW until deadline September 2nd, 2020
More details on the competition and submission can be found here.
Join the #ForestChallenge today!
Post an image with your friends, family, or colleagues with forests and trees. Join the photo contest and reconnect with nature. Cities4Forests commits to planting 1 tree for each of the first 2,000 images posted on Facebook and Instagram.
For more info click on this link.
The photo contest starts 22 April - on #EarthDay in partnership with the Earthday network - and runs through 5 June - World Environment Day (#ForNature) with the winners to be announced on 29 June - International Day of the Tropics.
What: Webinar for the joint celebrations of International Day for Biological Diversity and World Environment Day. It covers biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and science - bridging traditional knowledge and science for biodiversity conservation in Africa. The webinar includes presentations by 4 speakers and is organized the the UNEP Addis Ababa Liaison Office.
Join webinar via this link - log in at least 20 minutes before the meeting
When: 20th May from 11:30 to 13:30 (GMT+3)
