Established in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly, the World Environment Day (WED) is hosted every year by a different city. It is commemorated with a week-long international exposition of June 5. The UN uses the day as a platform to stimulate environment-awareness, enhancing political attention and public action.
Let us track back to its inception at a glance to find what arenas have been highlighted to draw attention for awareness through 2006.
2006 — Don’t desert drylands
2005 – Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!
2004 – Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?
2003 – Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!
2002 – Give Earth a Chance
2001 – Connect with the World Wide Web of Life
2000 – The Environment Millennium – Time to Act
1999 – Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It!
1998 – For Life on Earth – Save Our Seas
1997 – For Life on Earth
1996 – Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home
1995 – We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment
1994 – One Earth One Family
1993 – Poverty and the Environment – Breaking the Vicious Circle
1992 – Only One Earth, Care and Share
1991 – Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership
1990 – Children and the Environment
1989 – Global Warming; Global Warning
1988 – When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last
1987 – Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof
1986 – A Tree for Peace
1985 – Youth: Population and the Environment
1984 – Desertification
1983 – Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy
1982 – Ten Years After Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)
1981 – Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains
1980 – A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development Without Destruction
1979 – Only One Future for Our Children – Development Without Destruction
1978 – Development Without Destruction
1977 – Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil Degradation
1976 – Water: Vital Resource for Life
1975 – Human Settlements
1974 – Only one Earth
Via: wikipedia