6/5/2020
1 World Environment Day being observed today • @ World Environment Day is observed every year on June 5 to encourage awareness and environmental protection. • @ It was first observed in 1974 with the theme “Only One Earth”. • @ UN General Assembly in 1972 established World Environment Day on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and later United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) was created. • @ World Environment Day Theme 2020: “Biodiversity”.