The World Environment Day was on 5 June. It is an annul event aimed to bring people closer to the environment and give them a reason to do something at least for a day for Mother Nature.
According to the United Nations,
“Through World Environment Day, the UN Environment Programme is able to personalize environmental issues and enable everyone to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.”
Here is a look at some events that were celebrated in India during the World Envrionment Day this year.
There are also images that are not of celebrations but show us the state of our own region, country and planet. See and decide for yourself if we really can celebrate world envrionmet day for just 24 hours or need to be the agents of change 24×7.
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