National Environment Month 2018

1 to 30 June

The celebration of the Environment Month is an annual event on the calendar of South Africa’s environment sector, and includes World Environment Day on 5 June. Other key events celebrated during National Environment Month include World Oceans Day on 8 June and World Day to Combat Desertification on 17 June.

World Environment Day (WED) activities take place all year round but climax on 5 June every year. The celebration of WED began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations (UN) stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action. Through WED, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is able to personalise environmental issues and enable everyone to realise not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.

 

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