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World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (5–16 June 1972), that had resulted from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. One year later, in 1973, the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth".
Actions deemed to be protecting the environment [61] Germany: Environment Prize: Bundesstiftung Umwelt: Decisive and exemplary contribution to the protection and preservation of our environment now and in the future [62] Germany: GreenTec Awards: VKP engineering GmbH: Projects, products, and people contributing to the protection of the ...
World Bicycle Day [75] June 3 World Environment Day: June 5 Solomon Memorial Day: June 5 World Oceans Day: June 8 Coral Triangle Day: June 9 International Lynx Day [76] [77] June 11 National Cougar Day [78] June 12 Global Wind Day: June 15 World Sea Turtle Day [79] June 16 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: June 17 World Croc Day ...
This is an article of notable issues relating to the terrestrial environment of Earth in 2024.They relate to environmental events such as natural disasters, environmental sciences such as ecology and geoscience with a known relevance to contemporary influence of humanity on Earth, environmental law, conservation, environmentalism with major worldwide impact and environmental issues.
Timothy E. Wirth, United States from North America - For his work as the head of the UN Foundation and Better World Fund, he established the environment as a priority and mobilized resources to address it. Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal, Yemen from West Asia: For his environmental policies as Minister and then as Prime Minister in Yemen. He established ...
In 2017, the contest expanded its geography more than ever before, with 36 countries participating that year and the contest reaching a record number of over 131,000 uploaded photographs. The number of participating countries slightly decreased in 2018, but the year of 2019 has again seen 37 countries taking part in the competition.
It evolved from the Estonian Science Photo Competition. The first global competition took place in 2017 [5] and is held every two years, [6] occurring for most countries around November or December. [7] [8] It has been called one of the most important photo competitions in the world. [9] The main organizer of the competition is Ivo Kruusamägi.
The International Environmental Design Contest (IEDC) is a competition hosted by the WERC Consortium and The Institute for Energy & The Environment at New Mexico State University. [1] It is an annual event in which student teams prepare written, oral, poster, and bench-scale model presentations in response to design tasks.