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April 38, 2065+June 5, 2008 is the 45th World Environment Day and 45th World Environment Day.

The origin of World Environment Day

1972 From June 5th to June 6th, 16, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the first conference on protecting human environment in the world in human history, which is a milestone and epoch-making event in the history of human environmental protection action. At the meeting, representatives of various countries suggested that the opening day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment-"June 5th" be designated as "World Environment Day". In the same year, in June 5438+10, the 27th United Nations General Assembly accepted and adopted this proposal.

The significance of "World Environment Day" is to remind people all over the world of the changes in global environmental conditions and the harm caused by human activities to the environment. It requires the United Nations system and governments around the world to carry out various publicity and commemorative activities on this day every year to emphasize the importance and urgency of protecting and improving the human environment. The United Nations Environment Programme will also select a member country to hold the "World Environment Day" commemoration in World Environment Day every year, and issue an annual report on the state of the environment to determine the theme of World Environment Day that year. On the day of "World Environment Day", governments and people all over the world will hold various commemorative activities to publicize the importance of environmental protection. Call on all citizens of the earth to make unremitting efforts to maintain and improve the human environment.

As the first country to advocate carbon neutrality, Wellington will host the 2008 World Environment Day. In 2008, New Zealand's celebrations will focus on finding ways and opportunities for countries, companies and communities to help them change their living habits and pursue a non-carbon economy and lifestyle. To commemorate World Environment Day during the 6th Five-Year Plan in 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme decided that the theme of this year would be "Changing traditional ideas and advocating low-carbon economy". To tie in with the Beijing Olympic Games, the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China has determined that the theme of "June 5" in World Environment Day, China this year is "Green Olympics and an environment-friendly society".

In order to actively implement the spirit of the Notice of the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Doing a Good Job in Propaganda in World Environment Day on June 5, 2008, improve the environmental awareness of leaders at all levels and the masses, mobilize all sectors of society to care for, participate in and support environmental protection, and form a strong environmental protection atmosphere in the whole society, Xingtai Environmental Protection Bureau will hold an invitation exhibition and a photo contest with the theme of "Environment-friendly Xingtai"; Special issues on environmental protection were published in China Environmental News, Hebei Daily and Xingtai Daily, and the 2007 annual bulletin on environmental conditions was published in Xingtai Daily. With the aim of advocating harmony between man and nature and building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, we will publicize environmental protection achievements, show the image of environmental protection team, spread environmental protection ideas and look forward to the environmental protection blueprint through popular forms such as paintings, photos and newspapers.

Development history of World Environment Day

Since the 1960s, environmental pollution and ecological destruction have become increasingly serious worldwide, and environmental problems and environmental protection have gradually attracted the attention of the international community.

1On June 5th, 972, the United Nations held the first conference on the human environment in Stockholm, Sweden, and adopted the famous Declaration on the Human Environment and the Action Plan for Protecting the Global Environment, putting forward the slogan of "protecting and improving the environment for this generation and future generations". This is the first conference in human history to study and protect the human environment in the world.

11300 delegates from13 countries and regions suggested that the opening day of the conference be "World Environment Day".

The delegation of China actively participated in the drafting of the above declaration, and put forward the 32-word policy of the China government on environmental protection approved by Premier Zhou Enlai at the meeting: "Overall planning, rational layout, comprehensive utilization, turning harm into benefit, relying on the masses, jointly protecting the environment and benefiting the people."

In the same year, the 27th General Assembly of the United Nations decided to establish the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on the basis of the recommendations of the Stockholm Conference, and designated June 5th as World Environment Day every year, requiring United Nations agencies and governments and organizations around the world to hold various activities to protect the environment and combat public hazards around June 5th every year. The United Nations Environment Programme also publishes the annual report on the state of the world environment on this day.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection released the theme of "Environment Day" on 20 15.

June 5 this year is the first "environment day" after the implementation of the new environmental protection law. Today, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced to the media the themes of "Environment Day" and "Practicing Green Life" in 20 15. The theme aims to enhance the environmental awareness, conservation awareness and ecological awareness of the whole people, choose a low-carbon, frugal green lifestyle and consumption mode, form a new social trend of advocating ecological civilization for everyone and everything, and lay a solid social and mass foundation for the construction of ecological civilization.

The Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization, which was deliberated and adopted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, puts forward that it is necessary to speed up the greening of lifestyle and realize the transformation of lifestyle and consumption mode to frugality, green, low-carbon, civilization and health. The new environmental protection law also clearly stipulates: "Citizens should enhance their awareness of environmental protection, adopt a low-carbon and frugal lifestyle, and consciously fulfill their environmental protection obligations." Advocating green lifestyle is an important measure to integrate ecological civilization construction into economic, political, cultural and social construction. At present, China is in the process of accelerating industrialization and urbanization. With the great improvement of material conditions, some bad lifestyles and consumption behaviors in people's daily lives have caused more and more serious waste of resources and environmental damage, and more and more behaviors of comparing, showing off and wasting have occurred. The environmental cost of these behaviors is to consume more resources and energy and emit more greenhouse gases. The environmental problems caused by these behaviors have become the bottleneck restricting the overall construction of a well-off society. Therefore, it has become a very urgent task to actively advocate frugal, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyles and consumption patterns, and vigorously advocate people's consumption concepts and green lifestyles. Advocating a green lifestyle requires people to consciously make green choices in food, clothing, housing, transportation and other aspects, and needs to be coordinated and promoted in many aspects, such as changing consumption concepts, formulating policies and systems, promoting national actions and improving safeguard measures, and establishing a long-term mechanism for government guidance, market response, public participation, and coordination. At the same time, advocate a green lifestyle.

The theme of this year's "Environment Day" is "Practicing Green Life", aiming at widely spreading and popularizing the concept of "green lifestyle" through the concentrated publicity of "Environment Day", enhancing people's understanding and understanding of "green lifestyle" and consciously transforming it into practical actions; Call on everyone to take action, start from themselves, start from small things around us, reduce the phenomenon of leading consumption, showing off consumption, extravagant consumption, extravagance and waste, and realize the transformation of lifestyle and consumption pattern to frugality, green, low carbon, civilization and health; Respond to the theme of World Environment Day determined by the United Nations Environment Programme, and form a joint propaganda force.

It is understood that the United Nations Environment Programme has decided that the theme of World Environment Day this year is "sustainable consumption and production" and the slogan is "the dream of seven billion people: caring for the earth of consumption".

During the "Environment Day", the Ministry of Environmental Protection will hold a series of publicity and commemorative activities, and various localities will also carry out colorful publicity and commemorative activities around the theme of "Environment Day" to unite all social forces and make greater contributions to promoting ecological civilization construction and environmental protection.