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‘Only One Earth’: Everything to know about World Environment Day, 2022

This year presents a historic milestone, marking 50 years since the Stockholm Conference. Sweden is the host country of World Environment Day, 2022, with ‘Only One Earth’ — focussing on living sustainably in harmony with nature — as the theme. #GKbyMilitaryChoice

World Environment Day History

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference) in 1972 became the first global conference with the environment as its major agenda. 14000+ Objective General Studies MCQs with Explanatory Notes for UPSC CDS NDA AFCAT SSC Exams

At the conference, the right to live in a healthy environment was declared as a basic human right.

The Stockholm Conference formalised the idea of World Environment Day. Each year, a different country hosts the event.

It also witnessed the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme.

India hosted the 45th World Environment Day in 2018. The theme for that year was ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’.

Celebrations for World Environment Day last year kicked off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) — a global mission to revive billions of hectares, from the farmlands to forests, the top of mountains to the depths of the seas.

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