World Environment Day today
CHINA: The world will witness and celebrate the 38th World
Environment Day (WED) today.
The WED theme for 2009 chosen by the United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP) is “Your Planet Needs You! Unite to Combat Climate
Change.”
World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in
October 1972, to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the
Human Environment and adoption of the Human Environment Declaration in
June of the same year.
Another solution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led
to the creation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
From 1974, the UNEP annually chooses a theme for world environment
day to boost worldwide awareness of the environment and enhance
political attention and action.
As the development of industrialization, human beings created great
wealth by making use of fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil, which
has also brought on serious environment problems caused by the emission
of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Beijing, Thursday, Xinhua
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