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Week of September 22 in China World Water Week in Stockholm: August or September, annual National Op Shop Week (Australia) [citation needed] August 21–27 World Oceans Week [191] June 1–8 National Herbal Medicine Week: Each year for the last week in October [192] International Compost Awareness Week: First Full Week in May [193]
World Ocean Day (WOD) is an international day that takes place annually on 8 June. The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1]
The event coincided with the World Oceans Day on 8 June and started with the World Environment Day on 5 June. [1] [90] [63] [91] [92] On 4 June the World Ocean Festival took place at New York City's Governors Island. The festival was hosted by the City of New York, organized by the Global Brain Foundation and was free and open to the public ...
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The Secretariat of World Ocean Week in Xiamen introduced that themed "Blue Synergy for a Shared Future: One Sustainable and Resilient Ocean", the event has attracted 26 ministerial-level officials from 15 countries, and more than a thousand guests at home and abroad to attend the opening ceremony and various international conferences.
Meiji Maru is the origin of Marine Day. The day was known as Marine Memorial Day (海の記念日, umi no kinen bi) until 1996. Communications Minister Shōzō Murata designated the day in 1941 to commemorate the Meiji Emperor and his 1876 voyage in the Meiji Maru, an iron steamship constructed in Scotland in 1874. [5]