World Environment Day

• World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 05 June.

• In 1972, the United Nations adopted June 5 as World Environment Day at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

• The first World Environment Day was celebrated in 1973. Its theme was "Only One Earth".

• The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day.

• Cote d'Ivoire is hosting World Environment Day 2023 in partnership with the Netherlands.

• This year the theme of World Environment Day is "Solution to Plastic Pollution". Beat Plastic Pollution is the theme of this year's campaign.