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: For World Environment Day, AISEC is focusing this week's podcast on the topic of sustainability. The aim is to showcase how young leaders utilise their ideas and entrepreneurs skills to create innovative solutions for building more sustainable communities.
In collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program, our guest on this episode Sonika Manandhar, is recognised as UNEP Champion of the earth. Sonika tries to build more sustainable communities in Nepal through tackling multiple issues at the same time.
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What: Four speakers join for a discussion organized by the International Climate Change Development Initiative in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Striftung & Coalition for Socio-Ecological Transformation
When: June 5th at 3PM West African Time
Join via this link: bit.ly/WED2020NG
What: In honour of World Environment Day, the East African Wild Life Society has partnered with the Mpala Research Centre to host a special reading of Executive Director Dino J. Martins children's book on entomology. Youth of all ages are welcome to learn what means what it means to explore the world around us & “learn how real scientists observe insects, capture them to study up close, and release them back into the wild.”
When: 10:00 AM EDT | 5:00 PM EAT
Abracadabra!!!? Can #magic save biodiversity? Watch this trick performed for us (and you) by Spanish teacher-magician Xuxo, Global Teacher Prize finalist. And have a magical #World Environment Day! @lamagiadexuxo #ForNature pic.twitter.com/q56DATwLZA
— UN Environment Programme Europe (@UNEP_Europe) June 5, 2020
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced Alex Rendell as a National Goodwill Ambassador for Thailand.
Alex is an actor and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Education Center (EEC), an organization that raises environmental awareness among children. Alex has long been a presence in Thai television and cinema, having got his start in front of the camera when he was only 4 years old. He has featured in numerous well-known sitcoms and dramas such as Kom-Fak (Brave Man Standing) and Keb-Pan-Din (The Good Citizen).
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Join via the 350.org website and Facebook live for a beautiful day of music, film, and innovative conversations around solutions for a renewable world. The line-up includes Arundhati Roy, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Angelique Kidjo, amongst other musicians, performers, grassroots activists, and thought leaders, joining together to chart a path forward for humanity.
When: 3 – 7 pm EST on 5 June
Find out more information via PathwaytoParis' Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pathway2Paris/?ref=br_rs
Everything is interconnected: Genuine care for our own lives and our relationships with nature is inseparable from fraternity, justice, and faithfulness to others. #LaudatoSi #WorldEnvironmentDay
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 5, 2020
What: Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.
The tragic Covid-19 crisis has revealed our fragility, our community of shared human fate – wherever we live – and our capacity to free ourselves from political and financial dogma in the face of imminent danger. While we are threatened by other dangers - climate disruption, the collapse of biodiversity, social inequalities - #TheTimeHasCome for major cultural and structural changes.
On World Environment Day, Nicolas Hulot, former French Minister of Environment, and the Fondation pour la nature et l’homme, invite you to discover 100 principles and 5 proposals and join the international call to say that "The time has come" to establish the cornerstones of a new world. Lead by actress Juliette Binoche and Aurelien Barrau, 200 Nobel Prize winners, scientists, celebrities and international artists have got together to sign a forum in Le Monde entitled “The time has come”.