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.
Join us as we come together for World Environment Day 2020, together with our special guests:
? Angie Mead King (farmer/environmentalist, founder of King Tower Farm)
? Chef Louise Mabulo (chef/environmentalist, United Nations Young Champion of the Earth, founder of The Cacao Project)
? Alex Rendell (Co-founder and CEO of the Environmental Education Centre Thailand and newly named Goodwill Ambassador for Thailand)
?Hosted by our very own CORA Founder and UN Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador —Antoinette Taus
We thank Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal of #Jordan ?? Honorary Human Development Ambassador of @UNDP, for joining millions of people today, and standing #ForNature on the occasion of #WorldEnvironmentDay pic.twitter.com/eBBFRtvzcT
— UN Environment Programme West Asia (@UNEP_WestAsia) June 5, 2020
Across The Ocean - Karsh Kale featuring Benny Dayal , Priya Darshini , Komorebi , Warren Mendonsa and Rajeev Maddela https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/ # #Worldenvironmentday #ForNature
Posted by KARSH KALE on Thursday, June 4, 2020
My dear fellow citizens,
World countries have accepted the fact that it is necessary to collaborate fully in the use of nature-based solutions in confronting global climate change.
The United Nations has adopted the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from 2021 to 2030 to confront the problems of climate change, strengthening of efforts to provide food and clean water, and protection of biodiversity; to take wide-ranging measures to restore ecosystems that have been deteriorating badly. That is why 2020 is a very important year for all countries of the world to commit themselves to the task of conservation of biodiversity and environment.
In Myanmar, we have been striving hard to achieve national reconciliation and working on historic reforms including the establishment of a Democratic Federal Union. For these tasks to succeed with effectiveness, the protection and conservation of the environment and valuable natural resources plays a very important role.
Read the full speech here.
Whoopi Goldberg has teamed up with Extinction Rebellion in a beautiful new animation set in the future, entitled 'The Gigantic Change'. The film, released as part of World Environment Day, looks back from 2050 to show how people came together to save the world from the climate and ecological crisis.
Visit https://www.thegiganticchange.com to find out how you can take action today.
Here are a few who took the pledge:
"I stand for #nature because now, more than ever before, we are awakened to the urgency of protecting life on Earth."?
For #WorldEnvironmentDay, our Acting Exec Sec'y @mremae pledges to stand #ForNature.
Join @UNEP_WestAsia's challenge & let us know why you stand for #nature. pic.twitter.com/ipDyyX9yPW— UN Biodiversity (@UNBiodiversity) June 4, 2020
شكراً لسعادة الشيخ عبدالله الأحمد الحمود الصباح، مدير عام الهيئة العامة للبيئة ورئيس مجلس الإدارة في دولة #الكويت ?? للمشاركة في تحدي #من_أجل_الطبيعة بمناسبة #اليوم_العالمي_للبيئة @EPA_KW @samidimassi_UN #ForNature#WorldEnvironmentDay pic.twitter.com/kwrXss3mSo
— UN Environment Programme West Asia (@UNEP_WestAsia) June 4, 2020
شكراً للسيد حسن المهندي، الوكيل المساعد لشؤون البيئة، في وزارة البلدية والبيئة في دولة #قطر ?? للمشاركة في تحدي #من_أجل_الطبيعة بمناسبة #اليوم_العالمي_للبيئة@albaladiya @samidimassi_UN #ForNature #WorldEnvironmentDay pic.twitter.com/TmokjkH3fb
— UN Environment Programme West Asia (@UNEP_WestAsia) June 4, 2020
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We are part of chain. Not the chain.— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) June 5, 2020
What: A 3 day online live-streamed event with panel discussions on biodiversity and climate change, information on local environmental action groups, sustainable living tutorials and live music.
This event will explore the key challenges facing biodiversity and what we can do to protect and conserve our local flora and fauna. The panel discussions include expert biologists, botanists and ecologists.
Join via this link.
#WorldEnvironmentDay 2020.
Together we must act #ForNature . My SandArt at Puri beach in Odisha with message, it’s time for nature. Make the planet #Green . pic.twitter.com/zEA1Qbf2lx— Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand) June 5, 2020
