World Environment Day 2025: Date, theme, significance, celebrations, quotes and slogans — all you need to know
World Environment Day 2025: The Industrial Revolution, along with increasing urbanisation and population growth, has significantly contributed to the degradation of our natural environment.
World Environment Day, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), serves as an important occasion to raise awareness about environmental crises and promote action for sustainability.
This global event is observed annually on June 5; this year, in 2025, it will be falling on a Thursday, June 5, with the Republic of Korea hosting the event. It will focus on the theme #BeatPlasticPollution.
The theme aims to teach people about how we make, use, and throw away plastics, and what effects they have. The initiative seeks to engage communities globally in advocating for and implementing effective solutions.
It will highlight the mounting scientific research on plastic pollution's effects while promoting efforts to refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink our reliance on plastics and reaffirm the global commitment established in 2022 to address plastic pollution through a comprehensive treaty.
Crabs swap seashells for bottle caps. Birds nest in bags.
Plastic trash doesn't belong in nature, but for too many creatures, it has become the new normal.
It doesn't have to be this way. With collective action, we can #BeatPlasticPollution.https://t.co/e2SY5xwAG5 pic.twitter.com/AQDBzE2LDA
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) June 3, 2025
The first major global meeting about environmental issues happened in Stockholm in 1972. This event was a turning point for the worldwide environmental movement.
This meeting acknowledged everyone's basic right to live in a clean environment and resulted in the creation of the UNEP. To celebrate this, it named June 5 is named a worldwide day to focus on environmental awareness.
Since that time, the UNEP has taken part in many projects to safeguard the environment. These range from boosting awareness about ecological problems to having an impact on global environmental rules.
As we mark World Environment Day today, here are some motivating messages, wishes and quotes that you can share with your friends.
'Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you'. – John Muir
'What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another' – Mahatma Gandhi
'If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either'. – Joseph Wood Krutch
'Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land'. – Aldo Leopold
'People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves'. – Robert Collier
'It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. '– Ansel Adams
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