February 2nd every year is World Wetlands Day. [1] This is the poster of the International Wetland Union (wiun) on 19 World Wetlands Day.
1March, 1996, it was decided that from 1997, all countries in the world would hold different forms of activities to publicize and protect natural resources and ecological environment. 197 1 On February 2nd, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat was signed in Ramsar, Iran for eight years. In order to commemorate this pioneering work and raise public awareness of wetlands, 1996 At its19th meeting, the Standing Committee of the Convention on Wetlands decided to designate February 2 of each year as "World Wetlands Day" from 1997. Wetlands are the most valuable ecosystems in the world. According to the authoritative research data of the United Nations Environment Programme in 2002, the value created by one hectare of wetland ecosystem is as high as 14000 USD per year, which is 7 times that of tropical rain forest and 160 times that of farmland ecosystem.
March 12: China Arbor Day.
"Arbor Day" is a festival stipulated by some national laws to publicize forest benefits and mobilize the masses to participate in afforestation. According to the length of time, it can be divided into Arbor Day, Tree Planting Week or Tree Planting Month, collectively known as Arbor Day. Through this kind of activity, people's feelings of loving forest afforestation are aroused, people's understanding of forest functions is improved, the greening of the country is promoted, and the purposes of loving forest protection, expanding forest resources and improving ecological environment are achieved. This is a festival to mobilize the whole people to plant trees. 1On February 23rd, 979, the 6th meeting of the 5th the NPC Standing Committee in China decided to keep March 12 as China Arbor Day to encourage people of all ethnic groups to plant trees, green the motherland, improve the environment and benefit future generations.
March 22nd: World Water Day
World Water Day is another festival decided by human beings at the end of the 20th century. In order to meet the needs of people's daily life, commerce and agriculture for water resources, the United Nations has long been committed to solving the global water crisis caused by the rising demand for water resources. 1977 The "United Nations Water Conference" issued a solemn warning to the whole world: water will soon become a profound social crisis, and the next crisis after the oil crisis will be water. 1993 65438+1October 18, the 47th UN General Assembly made a resolution to designate March 22nd as World Water Day every year.
March 23rd: World Meteorological Day
World Meteorological Day, also known as International Meteorological Day, is the anniversary of the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization, which falls on March 23rd every year. The establishment of the World Meteorological Organization is to commemorate the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization and the effective date of the International Meteorological Organization Convention (1March 23, 950). Every year, "World Meteorological Day" has a theme, which requires member countries to hold celebrations on this day to widely publicize the important role of meteorological work.
Week in April: National Bird Love Week.
Birds are important creatures in nature and friends of human beings. Any week in April is National Bird Love Week.
April 22nd: Earth Day
Earth Day (April 22nd) Earth Day, that is, April 22nd every year, is a worldwide environmental protection activity. This activity originated in America. 1On April 22nd, 970, under the initiative and organization of Senator Gaylord Nelson, a US Democratic Party, and dennis hayes, a student of Harvard University, hundreds of thousands of people in the United States took part in the important activity of "Earth Day", calling for creating a clean, simple and peaceful living environment. As the beginning of modern environmental protection movement, "Earth Day" has promoted the establishment of environmental laws and regulations in many countries. 1April 22, 990, more than 200 million people in more than 40 countries around the world held various environmental protection publicity activities at the same time, calling for improving the overall global environment. This activity has been affirmed by the United Nations. On April 22, 2009, the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution, deciding to designate April 22 every year as "Earth Day". In 1990s, the initiator of Earth Day created the Earth Day Network, which united environmentalists all over the world to promote Earth Day activities. The earth is the home of human beings, but human activities have caused serious damage to the earth. Forests, lakes, wetlands, etc. The environment on which living things depend is disappearing at an alarming rate; Due to over-exploitation, non-renewable energy sources such as coal, oil and natural gas are facing exhaustion; A large number of greenhouse gases emitted by energy combustion lead to global warming, and the resulting problems such as melting polar ice sheets and rising sea levels threaten human survival and development. It is urgent to protect the earth's resources and environment and seek a sustainable development model.
May 3 1 day: World No Tobacco Day
May 3 1 day is "World No Tobacco Day". Since 1950s, a large number of epidemiological studies around the world have confirmed that smoking is the primary risk factor for lung cancer. In order to arouse the international community's attention to the harm of tobacco to human health, the World Health Organization suggested that April 7th of each year be designated as "World No Tobacco Day" and implemented on 1988. Since 1989, World No Tobacco Day has been changed to May 3 1 day every year.
June 5: World Environment Day
World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5th every year. Its establishment reflects people's understanding and attitude towards environmental problems all over the world, and expresses our yearning and pursuit for a beautiful environment. World Environment Day is one of the main media of the United Nations to promote global environmental awareness, raise the government's attention to environmental issues and take action. The United Nations system and governments around the world will carry out various activities every June 5th to publicize and emphasize the importance of protecting and improving the human environment. On June 5th every year, the United Nations Environment Programme selects a member country to hold a commemorative event of "World Environment Day", publishes an annual report on the state of the environment and commends the "Top 500 in the world", and formulates the annual theme of "World Environment Day" according to the world's major environmental problems and environmental hotspots in that year. The significance of World Environment Day is to remind the world of the state of the earth and the harm of human activities to the environment. The United Nations system and governments are required to carry out various activities on this day, emphasizing the importance of protecting and improving the human environment. The United Nations Environment Programme publishes the theme of World Environment Day at the beginning of each year and the annual report on the state of the environment in World Environment Day every year. During this period, the State Environmental Protection Administration of China issued a bulletin on the environmental situation in China.
June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
1994 65438+In February, the 49th United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 1 15, declaring June 17 every year as the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought from 1995. Call on governments to pay attention to land desertification, an increasingly serious global environmental problem.
June 25th: China Land Day.
1991on may 24th, the 83rd executive meeting in the State Council decided to designate June 25th every year as "Land Day" in China. On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the promulgation of the Land Management Law of the People's Republic of China, the purpose of establishing Land Day is to tell people about the national conditions of China with a large population and a small land, so as to arouse the land awareness of the whole people.
June 26th: World Anti-Drug Day
Drug abuse has become one of the most serious public hazards in the world today. The United Nations held a ministerial conference on drug abuse and illegal trafficking in Vienna from June 6 to 26, 1987. The congress put forward the slogan of "Love life, don't take drugs", and more than 3,000 representatives from 138 countries unanimously agreed to designate June 26th as the International Day against Drugs every year, so as to arouse the attention of all countries in the world to the drug problem.
July 1 1: World Population Day
Every July 1 1 is World Population Day. In July 1987+0 1 day, the population of the earth reached 5 billion. To commemorate this special day, 1990, the United Nations decided to designate July 1 1 day as "World Population Day" on the recommendation of the 36th session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, so as to arouse people's attention to population issues. Accordingly,1July 990 1 1 became the first World Population Day.
September 16: International Ozone Layer Protection Day
1995 65438+1On October 23rd, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to designate September 16 every year as the International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer from1995. The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer to commemorate the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer signed on September 6th, 1987. All States parties must take concrete actions to commemorate this special day in accordance with the objectives of the Protocol and its amendments. Since 1976, the United Nations Environment Programme has held various international conferences and adopted a series of resolutions to protect the ozone layer. Especially in 1985, after the discovery of the obvious thinning of the ozone layer around the Antarctic, the so-called "Antarctic ozone hole" problem, the international call for protecting the ozone layer and protecting future generations of mankind became even louder.
65438+10.4: International Animal Day
Italian missionary Saint Francis advocated "Thanks to the animals that give love to human beings" on 100 years ago 10. In order to commemorate him, people designated 65438+10.4 as "World Animal Day".
10.4 World Animal Day In every corner of the world, we can see this picture to varying degrees:
Birds with broken wings, bare hills, dry river beds, cities buried in the desert,
The gazelle is sucking milk mixed with blood in its dead mother's arms.
There is a lonely baby elephant whose parents lost their lives for ivory; Hundreds of seabirds drowned in seawater polluted by oil;
People died in famine, conquest and killing!
We are so small, what can we do for nature and the world?
One person can do very little, but together they can do a lot! Let each of us stretch out our hands,
Heal those bleeding wounds; Build a roof to shelter the weak life from the wind and rain; Put up a pair of wings,
Put it on the back of the earth so that she can fly!
June 10: International Day for Disaster Reduction
199111October 9th is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme of "Disaster Reduction, Development and Environment-For the Same Goal".
1992 10 10/4 is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme of "Natural Disaster Mitigation and Sustainable Development".
19931010.6 is the international day for disaster reduction, with the theme of "reducing the loss of natural disasters, paying special attention to schools and hospitals" (stop disasters; Pay attention to schools and hospitals.
199410 June 12 is the international day for disaster reduction, with the theme of "determining the areas threatened by disasters and the people vulnerable to disasters-for a safer 2 1 century" (protecting community cities vulnerable to disasters).
199565438+1October1is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme of "Women and children-the key to prevention". The activities focused on: holding various meetings to discuss how women and children play a key role in disaster prevention; Publish a collection of research on how women and children play a role in disaster prevention, and arrange some projects to make a special investigation report on the role of women and children in disaster prevention.
1996 10 10 9 October is the International Day for Disaster Reduction with the theme of "Cities at Risk".
1997 65438+1October 8th is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme "Too much water ... too little ... the main cause of natural disasters".
1998 65438+1October 14 is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme of "Natural Disaster Prevention and Media".
199910 June 13 is the international day for disaster reduction, with the theme of "reducing disasters and benefiting the people-science and technology protect life and property safety in disaster prevention".
On June 5438+1October1October, 2000, it was the International Disaster Reduction Day with the theme of "Disaster Prevention, Education, Youth, with Special Attention to Forest Fires".
200 1 10 10 is the International Day for Disaster Reduction with the theme of "Fighting against disasters; Target vulnerability).
June 5438+1October 9, 2002 is the International Day for Disaster Reduction with the theme of "Disaster Reduction for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas".
In 2005, the theme was "Using micro-credit and safety net to improve disaster resistance". The purpose of setting up this theme is to strengthen the ability of financial industry and related institutions in disaster reduction.
A sense of mission to play a potential role in the industry; The second is to raise the awareness of disaster management departments, make full use of financial tools and safety networks, and reduce the disaster vulnerability of disaster-prone people.
65438+ 10/6: World Food Day
World Food Day (WFD for short) is a day that governments around the world hold commemorative activities around the development of food and agricultural production in June 65438+1October 65438+June. World Food Remembrance Day was held in June 5438+0979165438+10. The 20th General Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (hereinafter referred to as "FAO") decided that June 5438+098 1 16 would be the first World Food Day commemoration day. Since then, every year on this day, various commemorative activities will be held for World Food Day. Its purpose is to arouse the world's great attention to the development of grain and agricultural production.
65438+February 29th: International Biodiversity Day
International Day for Biodiversity (International Day for Biodiversity)
The United Nations Environment Programme convened a meeting of the Ad Hoc Expert Working Group on Biodiversity in June to discuss the necessity of an international convention on biodiversity. 1989 in may, an ad hoc working group of technical and legal experts was established to draft an international legal instrument for the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity. By February of 199 1, this ad hoc working group was called the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee. 1The Nairobi meeting in May 1992 adopted the agreed text of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Convention was opened for signature during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development on June 5, 1992, and entered into force on February 29, 1993. The first meeting of States parties was held in the Bahamas in June. The meeting suggested that the date of entry into force of the convention should be "International Biodiversity Day". At the same time, the General Assembly urged the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to take necessary measures in all aspects to ensure that the activities of the International Day of Biodiversity are held as scheduled. 2001May 17 According to resolution 20 1 of the 55th UN General Assembly, the International Biodiversity Day was changed to May 22nd every year.