On Sunday, South Africa will join other countries in observing World Environment Day 2022.
This year, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) will commemorate the day in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA), and the eThekwini Municipality.
WED is the world’s largest environmental awareness day.
The event, which has been conducted every year since 1974 and is organized by UNEP, has grown to become the largest worldwide platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people from all over the world participating to safeguard the planet.
This year, World Environment Day will be held under the campaign slogan: “Only One Earth”, with a focus on “Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature”.
This year will go down in history as a watershed moment for the global environmental community. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in 1972, is widely regarded as the first international meeting on the environment.
Climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, as well as waste pollution, are three major environmental crises that the world is facing.
Human activity and unsustainable consumption and production patterns are to blame. Environmental crises often have the greatest impact on the world’s most vulnerable communities.