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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".
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.
In coordination with the Rio+20 event, the platform hosted a World Environment Day Global School Contest in which 7th graders at the International School of Ulaanbaatar (ISU) in Mongolia were declared the Global Winners for their awareness campaign on the environmental impact of plastic shopping bags, including research on plastic bag ...
The Earth Prize 2024 Awards Winner: Team FloodGate (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, USA), for "a flood prediction and warning technology to protect communities worldwide". [9] Runner-up 1: Team CocoMellow (i-IVY, Vietnam), for "their design for eco-diapers made from coconut coir and banana fiber". [9] [10]
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 ...
NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz helped judge the 2024 contest, along with Linda Witong Abrahm, Brian Sobel, Amy Gutierrez, Fiona Ma. Last year, a hairless Chinese Crested pup named Scooter took home the ...
World Otter Day [66] [67] May 25 World Dugong Day [68] [69] May 28 Black Birders Week: May 29 World No Tobacco Day: May 31 World Parrot Day [70] [71] [72] May 31 World Reef Day [73] [74] June 1 World Peatlands Day: June 2 World Bicycle Day [75] June 3 World Environment Day: June 5 Solomon Memorial Day: June 5 World Oceans Day: June 8 Coral ...
June 21, 2024 at 9:19 PM A new pup has taken the crown for ugliest dog in the world . Wild Thang won the 2024 World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, California, on Friday.