World Environment Day 2020, Friday, 5 June: Celebrating Ideas, History and Theme
World Environment Day 2020, Friday, 5 June: Celebrating Ideas, History and Theme
This
year, Colombia, in collaboration with Germany, is going to host the World
Environment Day 2020. The theme of World Environment Day 2020 is biodiversity.
World
environment day is celebrated worldwide in almost all the countries (more than
150 countries) every year on 5th June to encourage the
awareness on preserving and protecting the environment.
Friday, 5 June, World Environment Day 2020 theme
“Biodiversity”
is chosen as theme for world environment day 2020 by United Nations
(UN).
Biodiversity
is
the variety of various living organisms present on earth and their interaction
and interrelationship. We can say as variety of life on earth is called as
biodiversity.
There
are three main type of biodiversity viz. genetic, species and ecosystem or
habitat biodiversity.
Human
domination is the greatest common thread of biodiversity because it takes
advantage of his power and consumes all type of resources by endangering the
life of other species.
Biodiversity
is very important for balancing our terrestrial environment and our ecosystem.
Humans
are also responsible for pollution and unwanted elements in the environment.
Biodiversity
conservation is very important for the sustainability of a healthier earth by
preserving and protecting species, ecosystem, and natural resources.
To ready more on biodiversity click on below link
History of World Environment Day
5th
June is also called as United Nations’ flagship day and held
annually since 1974 for promoting worldwide awareness on environment
preservation and protection.
In 1974, UNGA (United Nations General
Assembly) declared World Environment Day in the opening of Stockholm
Conference on Environment.
This
day is also a foundation day of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP),
it is an agency that helps all developing countries to develop the environment
protection and preservation measure, targets, policies, monitoring standards
and thresholds.
World Environment Day themes of previous years
Year
|
Theme
|
Hosted by country
|
2006
|
Deserts and Desertification
|
Algeria
|
2007
|
Melting Ice? – A Hot Topic
|
Norway
|
2008
|
Kick the Habit! Towards a
Low Carbon Economy
|
New Zealand
|
2009
|
Your Planet Needs You - Unite to
Combat Climate Change
|
Mexico
|
2010
|
Many Species. One Planet. One Future
|
Bangladesh
|
2011
|
Forests: Nature at your Service
|
India
|
2012
|
Green Economy: Does it include you?
|
Brazil
|
2013
|
Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Food print
|
Mongolia
|
2014
|
Raise your voice, not the sea level
|
Barbados
|
2015
|
Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.
|
Italy
|
2016
|
Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife trade
|
Angola
|
2017
|
Connecting People to Nature – in the city and on the
land, from the poles to the equator
|
Canada
|
2018
|
Beat Plastic Pollution
|
India
|
2019
|
Beat Air Pollution
|
China |
World Environment Day logos, symbols, and colours
Human eyes are more sensitive to light with a
wavelength of approximately 555 nm, which corresponds to a green colour. Human
rod cells are more sensitive to the wavelength of green. Green colours
represent nature, it is the symbol of growth, balance, spring, rebirth,
prosperity, freshness, safety, harmony, fertility, emotion, and much more which
helps to refresh our mind.
Our eyes have three types of photoreceptor cells
called cones, which contain photographic pigments, which are designed to detect
wavelengths. Together, the cones work to communicate to the brain the colours
we see. During the day, our eyes can more easily capture green light.
The
word “Environment” is always represented by the green colour, the colour of
nature. Blue and green colours are the dominant colour of the earth. Blue
represent water and green represent nature/ greenery.
Therefore,
all the Environment logos are prepared with the combination of
green and blue colours.
 |
| World Environment Day logos, symbols, and colours |
Environment
symbols are generally prepared using the earth,
protecting by hands of human, national flora and fauna, green leaves, etc.
These
Environment logos, symbols and colours are used to prepare
posters and other publications to drive the Environment awareness
campaigns.
Ideas for celebrating World Environment Day 2020
The
main objective of the celebration of World Environment Day is to
spread awareness of the preservation and protection of the environment. On this
day, an awareness campaign is carried out on various subjects such as air
pollution, water pollution, preservation of marine ecosystems, the ban on
plastic, global warming, protection of wildlife, deforestation, etc around the
world so that the public can become aware and take care of the environment for
its sustainability.
Since
the theme of World Environment Day 2020 is “Biodiversity”, here
are the best ideas for preparing your awareness campaign.
Step-1:
Form a team to plan Environment Day celebration programs
It
is very important to plan your activities, aids, and other arrangement for a successful
campaign during the celebration of World Environment Day.
Although the name is Environment day, you have to run the campaign for the
entire week or for 15days before 5th June.
You
must list out all activities, including arrangement of poster and banners,
decoration aids, infrastructure to prepare stage for 5th June,
circulars, gifts and prizes/ awards, refreshment for audience, list of chief
guests and their invitations, etc. Nominate responsibilities of your team members
for each activity.
Step-2: Prepare the aid material for the celebration
of environment week.
You
have to prepare the material including posters, banners, theme banners,
material for contests and environment publications. All prizes and other
material to be purchased on the market must be in your hands prior to scheduled
date.
Here
are the tips and ideas for celebrating World environment day and
awareness period (week/ 15 days prior to actual day)
1. Quiz contest on Biodiversity and World Environment Day
It is one of the best ways to educate your
employees, workers and communities, including schools.
Here you need to prepare a questionnaire on
biodiversity and World Environment Day. You can take this quiz online for your
employees with the help of your IT team. For community school workers and
children, you must organize and distribute hard copies.
You will find below the organization sequence of
the quiz contest
1. Prepare the questionnaire and keep it secret.
The number of questions must not exceed 15 and must be of an objective type.
2. Prepare the answer sheet and keep it secret.
3. Mention the rules of the quiz before taking the
quiz.
4. The notice of declaration of the quiz contest
must be distributed by the management at least one week before the actual date
of the contest. It must be sent by e-mail as well as on paper on a bulletin
board. It must be in local and English language.
5. The rules for evaluating results must be part of
the above circular.
6. Designate the judge for the evaluation of the
results in order to maintain transparency.
7. Announce the winner one day before the
celebration program and send the message to all the winners for the awarding of
the prize on the date and time scheduled.
8. Organize appreciation awards for the winners.
To
get quiz questionnaire on Environment Day and Biodiversity, click on below link
2. Essay competition for employees, workers, and children in community school
It is one of the best ways to educate your
employees, workers and communities, including school children.
Here, you must organize blank papers in A4 format
and distribute them on the day of the competition.
You will find below the organization sequence of the
essay competition
1. Organize all the materials, including papers and
other aids.
2. The word limit for the essay must be limited to
200 worlds for workers, 500 worlds for employees and 100 worlds for
schoolchildren.
3. The dissertation topic must be announced at the
time of the competition.
4. The notice of essay contest must be distributed
by the management at least one week before the actual date of the contest. It
must be sent by e-mail as well as on paper on a bulletin board. It must be in
local and English language.
5. The rules for evaluating results must be part of
the above circular.
6. Designate the judge for the evaluation of the
results in order to maintain transparency.
7. Announce the winner one day before the
celebration program and send the message to all the winners for the awarding of
the prize on the date and time scheduled.
8. Organize appreciation awards for the winners.
3. Poster competition for employees, workers, and community school children
Here, you must have blank drawing sheets in A3 or
A2 format and distribute them during the competition day. The size of the
sheets should be decided for all categories of participants. The subject of the
poster contest must be announced at the time of the contest. Follow all the activities
listed in the above competitions.
4. Slogan competition on theme (Biodiversity) World Environment Day
This competition can be organized for all employees
and workers. The best innovative slogan would be selected by the judges and
will be declared the winner (1st, 2nd and 3rd). This competition can be
organized in different language categories.
The selected slogans can be displayed or painted on
the premises or organization of your company to motivate people and encourage
participation.
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here for Slogans on World Environment day and Biodiversity
5. Conduct community awareness program on World Environment Day
Here you can take the help of your CSR team and run
the environmental awareness program for your neighbouring villages, including
the public and schoolchildren.
You can plan general cleaning activities as well as
tree planting with the above program.
You can organize painting of school walls. The
painting may include an ecosystem and other animals with different vegetation.
6. Conduct Training program on Biodiversity for workers
You can organize an on-site training program on the
preservation and protection of the environment and biodiversity. This program
can be further improved by including the on-site quiz with the prize distribution.
Here, you must ask the questions orally, give the participant a chance by
raising their hand, and then allow one person at a time to answer the question.
If it's just handing over the prize. If the answer is false, pass the
opportunity to another participant.
7. Debate competition for Employees
Take the candidacies of the participants, form
teams, organize the competition with the availability of the judges, give the
subject as "Man is a beneficial or undesirable element of
biodiversity", "The conservation of biodiversity, the need today 'hui
", etc.
9. Skid or Drama competition for Employees and workers
Take the nominations of the participants, form a
team, organize the competition with the availability of the judges. It is a
very interesting concept to make people aware of the environment.
10. Computer flash awareness on Environment
This is a better idea for continuous awareness on
different environmental topics.
To do this, you need to prepare the PowerPoint
presentation slide for each day. Provide these ppts to your IT team to
configure them on the desktop of all computers / laptops. Since all computers
and laptops are connected to a single server in your company, each time a user
starts their machine, the desktop flash appears on the screen. It will
disappear at the first click. This way you can flash lots of messages /
information about the environment to raise awareness.
11. Environment Cleaning activity
This can be organized by your CSR team. Identify
the area inside and outside your business premises, including the Sour Navy. A
group or team with all the other volunteers will do the cleaning activity.
12. Tree plantation
It is a traditional activity to plant trees in your
business premises as well as in your neighbouring communities / villages. Your
company's management team should participate in tree planting activities to
promote environmental awareness. This activity should be specially organized so
that schoolchildren inculcate responsibility for a healthy environment.
13. Display of slogans and posters on Environment
It is the best way to create awareness about the
environment. Beautiful eye-catching posters can be prepared with slogans and
displayed in a conspicuous place. The slogan can be written in English as well
as in the local language. The poster should be such that if people cannot read,
they must understand the message by seeing the image.
Conclusion
The
theme of World Environment Day 2020 biodiversity. World environment
day is celebrated worldwide in almost all the countries (more than 150
countries) every year on 5th June to encourage the
awareness on preserving and protecting the environment.
World
environment day history reveals that 5th June
is United Nations’ flagship day and held annually since 1974 where UNGA
declared World Environment Day in the opening of Stockholm
Conference on Environment. This day is also a foundation day of the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
I hope the above ideas for celebrating World
Environment Day can help you publicize World
Environment Day.
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