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State of Environment and Related Issues

            The “World Environment Day” (WED) was first celebrated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. Since then every year it is being celebrated worldwide with the motto of stimulating worldwide awareness on environment and web all the living creatures on our mother earth without disturbing the equilibrium and ecobalance.WED is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated with an international exposition on 5th June. The U.N. uses WED to stimulate awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and publication. Cities have become the dominant institutions of our global civilization.

In the 1960s and 1970s, with the gradual development of the environmental protection movements in many counties around the world, environmental degradation became a serious social problem. There arose frequently some transnational environmental problems. Environmental issues and environmental movements gradually came into the international community life.

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held from 5 to 16 June 1972 in Stockholm. Representatives of governments and non-governmental persons from 113 nations discussed contemporary world environmental problems and global environmental protection strategy. The conference produced Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and Action Plan for the Human Environment comprising 109 recommendations, putting forward 7 common proclamations and 26 common principles to encourage and instruct people around the world to preserve and improve the human environment and also suggested to designate the opening day of the conference as the “World Environment Day.”

            In October 1972, the 27th United Nations Conference designated June 5 as the “World Environment Day.” The United Nations will make the theme of the “World Environment Day” each year based on the main environmental problems and environmental hot issues of that year. The United Nations systems and all governments carry out various kinds of activities on this day to spread the importance of protecting and improving the human environment. And meanwhile the United Nations Environment Program publishes the Annual Environment Report and holds the international conference to honor “World Top 500.”

This programme is basically structured to form a network to evolve an effective method to make community participate in protection and conservation of environmental resources.