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Annual
Environmental Events
The World Water Day - March
22 (each year)
The international observance of World
Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
The United Nations General Assembly
designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water
by adopting a resolution. This world day for water was to be observed
starting in 1993, in conformity with the recommendations of the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development contained in chapter 18
(Fresh Water Resources) of Agenda 21.
States were invited to devote the Day to
implement the UN recommendations and set up concrete activities as deemed
appropriate in the national context.
The Subcommittee welcomes the assistance
offered by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to contribute to
an information network centre in support of the observance of the Day by
Governments, as required.
For more information please visit the
World Water Day website
The Earth
Day - April 22 (each year)
The Earth Day is held on
April 22 of each year to promote awareness of
environmental issues. The first Earth Day was in 1970.
Earth Day Network (EDN) founded by the
organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, promotes environmental
citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.
Earth Day Network is a driving force
steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day
Network, activists connect, interact, and have an impact on their
communities, and create positive change in local, national, and global
policies. EDN's international network reaches over 17,000 organizations in
174 countries, while the domestic program engages 5,000 groups and over
25,000 educators coordinating millions of community development and
environmental protection activities throughout the year. Earth Day is the
only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all
backgrounds, faiths and nationalities. More than a half billion people
participate in Earth Day events every year.
EDN's mission is to grow and diversify
the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most
effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. This
mission is pursued through education, politics, events, and consumer
activism.
For more information
please visit the
Earth Day Net
website
The World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) - May 10 -11 or 2nd
weekend in May (each year)
WMBD is a
global initiative devoted to celebrating migratory birds and for promoting
their conservation worldwide.
WMBD was
launched in 2006 when the Secretariat of the
African-Eurasian
Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) and the Secretariat of the
Convention on Migratory
Species (CMS) both of
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) saw the need for a
global awareness campaign to inspire people to take action for the
conservation of migratory birds.
For more information
please visit the
World Migratory Bird
Day website
The
International Day for Biological Diversity (Biodiversity) - May 22 (each
year)
The United Nations
proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD) to
increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first
created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993,
29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological
Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity.
In December 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted 22 May as IBD, to
commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on 22 May 1992 by
the Nairobi Final Act of the Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed
Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This was partly done
because it was difficult for many countries to plan and carry out suitable
celebrations for the date of 29 December, given the number of holidays
that coincide around that time of year.
For more information
please visit the Convention
on Biodiversity or the
International Day for Biological Diversity
website
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