World Environment Day 2007
Commemorated every year on 5 June, World Environment Day (WED) was established by the United Nations in 1972 to help stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and to enhance political engagement in environmental issues. Although the day is marked around the world, the United Nations Environme...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/2012 2024-09-09T20:04:23+00:00 World Environment Day 2007 Goldman, Helle V. 2007-09-01 application/pdf https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2012 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v26i2.6233 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2012/5263 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2012 doi:10.3402/polar.v26i2.6233 Polar Research; Vol. 26 No. 2 (2007); 91-92 1751-8369 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2007 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v26i2.6233 2024-06-28T03:10:15Z Commemorated every year on 5 June, World Environment Day (WED) was established by the United Nations in 1972 to help stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and to enhance political engagement in environmental issues. Although the day is marked around the world, the United Nations Environment Programme selects one city to host the main WED celebrations, which are focussed on a central theme encapsulated in a slogan. Past WED host cities have included Algiers (”Don’t desert dry lands“), San Francisco (“Green cities—plan for the planet”), Barcelona (“Wanted! Seas and oceans—dead or alive?”) and Beirut (“Water—two billion people are dying for it”). Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Research Polar Research Polar Research 26 2 |
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Commemorated every year on 5 June, World Environment Day (WED) was established by the United Nations in 1972 to help stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and to enhance political engagement in environmental issues. Although the day is marked around the world, the United Nations Environment Programme selects one city to host the main WED celebrations, which are focussed on a central theme encapsulated in a slogan. Past WED host cities have included Algiers (”Don’t desert dry lands“), San Francisco (“Green cities—plan for the planet”), Barcelona (“Wanted! Seas and oceans—dead or alive?”) and Beirut (“Water—two billion people are dying for it”). |
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