This World Environment Day, the Yarra Energy Foundation will launch Victoria’s first-ever inner-urban community battery in Yarra.

The community battery is connected to the local subnetwork of nearly 200 premises, and aims to reduce emissions from electricity use; store renewable energy; absorb and redistribute excess solar energy; reduce demand on the electricity grid and share energy across the subnetwork, not just homes with rooftop solar.

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On World Environment Day 2022 the importance the textile industry can play in battling the climate crisis cannot be overlooked.

InTex, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Life Cycle Initiative, works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia to reduce the environmental impact of the industry. You can read more on the project here.

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Watch Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) speaking live at the STHLM+50 Climate Hub. 

World Environment Day 2022 launched in Stockholm, Sweden, with a plea: now is the time to act before it is too late.

Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Annika Strandhäll, the Swedish Minister for Climate and the Environment, launched World Environment Day with impassioned speeches calling for urgent action.

Andersen said: “We know what to do. End our addiction to fossil fuels. Restore nature to its full glory. Transform our food systems. Make our cities green, liveable and low-carbon... And we can do it – as one people, living on one Earth.”

This was a message echoed by Strandhäll; she said: “2022 must also be a turning point. We must show that we hear the call from science and the young generation. We must learn the lessons of the past and apply our efforts in the present in order to secure a sustainable future for all.”

World Environment Day 2022 has the theme #OnlyOneEarth and calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet. Led by UNEP, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across the world.

As host for 2022, Sweden is putting on the official World Environment Day ceremony at the Teknisa Museet in Stockholm starting at 11:30AM CET and lasting one hour.

Sweden’s Minister for Climate and the Environment Annika Strandhäll and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen will be there. This will be special programme with music, discussions and announcements, all set in the Technology Museum with its “Zero City” exhibition, about a future city where transport is fossil-fuel free.

The role chefs can play in creating sustainable food systems and helping to reduce plastic waste is the subject of a Twitter roundtable to be held on World Environment Day 2022.

The event, to be held on 5 June at 17:00 IST, is organised by Let Me Breath and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Every minute the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean and this roundtable will look at resources available to chefs from innovative solutions to small changes they can make on a daily basis to help reduce plastic pollution.

The roundtable will be live on the Let Me Breath Twitter Feed.

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We are asking too much of our planet to maintain our unsustainable ways of life.

Earth’s natural systems cannot keep up with our demands.

The only way forward is to work with nature, not against it.#WorldEnvironmentDay pic.twitter.com/on4z9ntE32

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) June 5, 2022

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Qutub Minar, the UNESCO world heritage site in Delhi, India, has been lit up with a message for World Environment Day 2022.

'Don’t choose Extinction' was projected onto the minaret to draw attention to the climate crisis.

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#WorldEnvironmentDay My SandArt at Puri beach in India with message “
We have #OnlyOneEarth & we need to take care of her not just for us but also for our future generations. “ pic.twitter.com/x28G3kH5Oh

— Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand) June 4, 2022

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To mark World Environment Day 2022 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the 'Lifestyle for the Environment (LiFE) Movement' at 6pm (IST) today.

The launch will initiate “LiFE Global Call for Papers” inviting ideas and suggestions from academics, universities and research institutions etc to influence and persuade individuals, communities and organisations across the world to adopt an environment-conscious lifestyle.

The launch will feature a keynote address by the Prime Minister as well as participation by Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Lord Nicholas Stern, Climate Economist; Professor Cass Sunstein, Author of Nudge Theory; Aniruddha Dasgupta, CEO and President of the World Resources Institute; Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director; Achim Steiner, UNDP Executive Director, and David Malpass, World Bank President, among others.

WATCH: World Environment Day: Every Action Counts LIVE event, 5 June 17:00 EAT (GMT+3) as we travel the globe to explore how the world is celebrating in 2022.