Since the first ever United Nations (UN)-sponsored World Environment Conference was held in Stockholm in 1972, it has become an annual fixture in the calendar, observed in all member countries on June 5th, rotating the host and changing the theme for celebration. Host countries included Rwanda, New Zealand, United States of America (USA), Algeria, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia and others with themes like ‘Melting Ice’, ‘Your Planet Needs You’, ‘Many Species, One Planet, One Future’, ‘Bio Diversity’, ‘Beat Air Pollution’, ‘Plant for the Future’ etc. On this 50th anniversary of the Environment Day, also known as Echo Day, the celebration took place in the original first host country, Sweden, surprisingly with the original theme: ‘Only one Earth’. There is poetic justice in this, in both the return to the ‘home’ country and the repetition of the original slogan, implying a long…
Friday, August 19, 2022
