Global community commemorates World Environment Day
Today is being observed around the world as World Environment Day.
It is a UN Environment-led event celebrated by thousands of communities globally since 1972.
World Environment Day is the UN's most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of the environment.
India is the global host of the 2018 World Environment Day which is under the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”.
The celebration will provide a common platform for global action in combating single-use plastic pollution.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a statement urges governments, industries, communities, and individuals to come together to explore sustainable alternatives, and urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastic polluting the oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health.
It says plastic pollution is a global emergency affecting every aspect of human lives and needs greater action in tackling it, noting that at least 13 trillion tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans every year.
In conjunction with the Day, UN Environment yesterday, launched REN21, or the Renewables 2018 Global Status Report, which paints a positive picture of a renewable power sector characterized by falling costs, increased investment, record-setting installation and innovative business models that are driving rapid change.
SOURCE: UNEP
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