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.
What: Didi Charity joined hands with the United Nations Environment Programme to launch the "Protect Your Nature" campaign. Inspired by the insights that human and urban wildlife constitute nature, with similar survival and emotional needs, DiDi Charity advocates the public to protect urban wildlife through sustainable consumption and civil society participation.
“Para mí es un verdadero honor como presidente de Colombia ser el anfitrión de este día tan importante para la humanidad”, el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, dijo el Presidente de Colombia Iván Duque, durante el evento oficial de celebración, transmitido en vivo en línea.
“Estamos en un momento de profundas reflexiones sobre la naturaleza, sobre el cambio climático, sobre cómo debemos comportarnos, sobre cuál debe ser la ética de nuestra sociedad, para proteger las especies y los ecosistemas”, señaló.
“No hay duda de que el momento más complejo que ha vivido la humanidad en muchos años, lo vivimos ahora, con ocasión de la COVID-19”, dijo el Presidente.
“Pero también es cierto que el gran tema de nuestro tiempo es nuestra capacidad de cambiar las tendencias frente al cambio climático y el calentamiento global. El cambio climático trae efectos devastadores en muchísimos ecosistemas. El cambio climático amenaza la biodiversidad, amenaza nuestros glaciares y por supuesto también termina elevando niveles del mar que afectan la sostenibilidad de muchos entornos costeros y de muchas poblaciones. Por eso este es el gran tema de nuestro tiempo”, alertó.
"América Latina y el Caribe tiene que hacerse cada vez más presente con su voz y sus acciones. En este Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente todos elevaremos nuestra voz, porque enfrentamos una pandemia, es cierto, pero nuestra aspiración no puede ser volver a como estábamos antes, sino salir de ella como mejor sociedad”, dijo Duque.
English translation:
Message from Iván Duque, President of Colombia, host country of World Environment Day
"For me, it is a true honour as the President of Colombia to be the host of this important day for humanity, the World Environment Day”, said President of Colombia, Iván Duque, during the official celebration event, broadcast live.
"We are in a time of deep reflections on nature, on climate change, on how we should behave, on what the ethics of our society should be, to protect species and ecosystems," he said.
"There is no doubt that we are living now the most complex times that humanity has lived in many years, on the occasion of COVID-19," said the President.
“But it is also true that the great theme of our time is our ability to change trends in the face of climate change and global warming. Climate change has devastating effects on many ecosystems. Climate change threatens biodiversity, threatens our glaciers, and of course, also ends up rising sea levels that affect the sustainability of many coastal environments and many populations. So, this is the great issue of our time," he warned.
"Latin America and the Caribbean has to become more and more present with its voice and its actions. On this World Environment Day, we will all raise our voices, because we are facing a pandemic, it is true, but our aspiration cannot be to go back to the way we were before, but to overcome this pandemic as a better society," said Duque.
Rocky Dawuni, Ghana: We’re losing environmental consciousness and awareness. We need to wake people up to recognize our responsibility. That is the power of music
Xiamen Airlines holds voluntary activities to raise the public awareness for environmental protection, and announced a new round of creative running courses, calling hundreds of participants’ attention to green commuting and protecting this beautiful planet.
Inger Andersen, Denmark: We need to cultivate environmental stewardship. It's the only way we can flip the green switch to sustainability and save our planet.
“The planet always speaks the truth. Let's listen”, says Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer, on World Environment Day.
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Lewis Pugh, South Africa: Animals aren’t represented in parliaments. We are their voices. Be a voice with me for the magnificent biodiversity that makes up our Oceans on Planet Earth.
Joyce Msuya, Kenya: Today's youth are powerful. They have technology, interconnectedness and unrivalled energy. They give us hope.
Afroz Shah, India: The problem isn’t plastic. It’s plastic pollution.
