The World Environment Day event schedule is now complete. Below is the 2021 World Environment day live feed.
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The webinar is organised by the Kuwait Water Association, the Arab Planning Institute, and Greenwave and is under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Ahmed Al-Homoud Al-Sabah, Chairman and General Manager of the Environment Public Authority in Kuwait.
What: Webinar on Ecosystem Restoration
When: June 9; 1800 -- 2100 Kuwait
The event is part of global celebrations to mark World Environment Day on June 5 and the official launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Follow the global movement to heal our planet by joining #GenerationRestoration here.
Find out how you too can help heal the planet by checking out UNEP’s Ecosystem Restoration Playbook.
In 2020, Save the Children launched a Red Alert campaign to demand that world leaders put children and their rights at the centre of climate discussions, commitments and policies.
As part of Pakistan’s celebrations around World Environment Day on June 5, the country’s Ministry of Climate Change is partnering with Save the Children Pakistan to launch the Red Alert campaign on climate and environment conservation at home.
As host of this year’s World Environment Day, Pakistan led this year’s celebration and showcased its own initiatives, including its 10 Billion Tree Tsunami to restore forests and mangroves and plant trees in urban areas over five years.
What: Launch of Climate and Environment Conservation Red Alert Campaign
When: June 7; 8.30 - 10.30am UTC | 1.30 - 3.30pm Pakistan
Find more details on Save the Children Pakistan’s Facebook page.
World Environment Day marked the official start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Learn more about how we can protect our ecosystems here and join #GenerationRestoration to help reset our relationship with nature.
It’s been an exciting #WorldEnvironmentDay here on @Twitter!
Check out our @TwitterMoments to enjoy some highlights from the #GenerationRestoration action. https://t.co/4MArbXhf4Y
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) June 5, 2021
Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! We hope you enjoy this song Jack recorded in celebration of restoring ecosystems around the world. #JustRecovery #GenerationRestoration @UNEP_NAmerica pic.twitter.com/FLxaU7KdiT
— Jack Johnson (@jackjohnson) June 5, 2021
Apple is committed to leaving the world better than we found it & protecting it for future generations. Proud to support projects like @ConservationOrg's efforts to reduce carbon & protect the wildlife of Kenya’s Chyulu Hills. #WorldEnvironmentDay https://t.co/2BJUCR542d pic.twitter.com/q496PkF2sG
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 5, 2021
It’s been an incredible day for #GenerationRestoration and a strong start to a critical decade when the world must unite to revive and restore millions of hectares of ecosystems for the benefit of people and nature.
Hosted by Pakistan in partnership with UNEP, this year’s World Environment Day served as the formal launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Led by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, speakers at the event – including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, China’s President Xi Jinping, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, heads of UN agencies and government ministers – stressed the importance of restoration in global efforts to mitigate climate change and promote sustainable development.
If you missed it, you can watch Pakistan’s World Environment Day event again here.
“The degradation of the natural world is already undermining the well-being of 3.2 billion people - or 40 per cent of humanity. Luckily, the Earth is resilient. But she needs our help. We still have time to reverse the damage we have done,” Guterres said.
“This global movement will bring together governments, businesses, civil society and private citizens in an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth,” he added.
This burgeoning global movement made its presence felt on social media all through the day. In collaboration with ByteDance, UNEP challenged users on the social media platform TikTok to share their ecosystem restoration action using the #GenerationRestoration hashtag. Videos with the hashtag have been viewed over 40 million times, with contributions from influencers including UNEP Goodwill Ambassadors Alex Rendell and Antoinette Taus.
Read the full report on the day’s activities here
World Environment Day may be nearly done but the work is just beginning. The UN Decade aims to mobilise hundreds of millions of people to restore nature and foster a global restoration culture in which restoration initiatives are scaled up across the planet.
As we move forward together, learn more about ecosystem restoration here and join #GenerationRestoration to be part of a movement that will define our times.
We’ll make your home greener, community more liveable, business more competitive, and life more affordable - and create clean jobs along the way. Let’s do this, Canada. Let’s tackle climate change, and let’s protect our environment. #WorldEnvironmentDay https://t.co/hW5hRf6fOp
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 5, 2021
BYJU’S, a leading ed-tech company with over 90 million users and the creator of one of India’s most loved school learning apps, has joined with UNEP to educate, empower and encourage young minds to fight climate change and restore ecosystems.
With the launch of the Eco Guardian Initiative, BYJU’S have made a commitment to engage children’s participation through the 10 years of the coming decade on ecosystem restoration.
“The #EcoGuardiansInitiative will engage students through knowledge sharing and exciting activities, helping them transform into champions of change,” BYJU’S said.
Also in India, during virtual celebrations to mark World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ambitious E-100 pilot project in Pune for the production and distribution of ethanol across his country. He also announced that the target of achieving 20 per cent ethanol blending in petrol has been brought forward to 2025 from 2030.
World Environment Day marked the official start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Learn more about how we can protect our ecosystems here and join #GenerationRestoration to help reset our relationship with nature.