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UNESCO's involvement in environmental awareness and education goes back to the very beginnings of the Organization, with the creation in 1948 of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, now the World Conservation Union), the first major non-governmental organization (NGO) mandated to help preserve the natural environment.
The Montreal Protocol is widely regarded as one of the most successful environmental agreements to date, having achieved universal ratification. Its implementation has led to the recovery of the ozone layer and contributed significantly to mitigating climate change.
Nature Is Speaking is an ongoing environmental awareness campaign by Conservation International that was launched in 2014. [1] The campaign is developed by TBWA\Media Arts Lab and produced by RadicalMedia for Conservation International. [2] It was conceptualized by Peter Seligmann and Lee Clow [3] and its launch was led by M. Sanjayan. [4]
Green Teacher [13] is a non-profit organization which publishes resources to help educators, both inside and outside of schools, to promote global and environmental awareness among young people from elementary through high school. The organization’s primary activity is the publication of Green Teacher, a quarterly magazine full of teaching ...
In 1968, Morton Hilbert and the U.S. Public Health Service organized the Human Ecology Symposium, an environmental conference for students to hear from scientists about the effects of environmental degradation on human health. [151] This was the beginning of Earth Day. For the next two years, Hilbert and students worked to plan the first Earth ...
Ecology Law Currents—produced by students at the UC Berkeley School of Law—an online publication containing "short-form commentary and analysis on timely environmental law and policy issues" [1] Environment and Energy Publishing—based in Washington, D.C.—covering environmental and energy policy and markets
World Environment Day in India. World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated annually on 5 June and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment.It is supported by many non-governmental organizations, businesses, government entities, and represents the primary United Nations outreach day supporting the environment.
Zero Waste Week is an environmental campaign to reduce landfill waste, and takes place annually during the first full week in September. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a non-commercial grass-roots campaign to demonstrate means and methods to reduce waste, foster community support [ 4 ] and bring awareness to the increasing problem of environmental ...