The month of June, is a time to reflect every year, due to the symbolic significance of the environment. World Environment Day, which falls on 5 June, provides an opportunity for the whole world to pose and reflect on our dealings with mother nature. In the year 2021, focus is on Ecosystems Restoration.
The world is faced with several challenges ranging from waste generation, climate change, biodiversity loss, energy crises, air pollution and depletion of the ozone layer. An increasing world population also poses serious challenges to the ability of the earth to regenerate resources.
In your country, province or community, take time to spare a thought for the environment. Do something meaningful for the future generations, plant a tree, recycle waste, service your automobile to enhance its efficiency, adopt cleaner fuels, save water at home, cut on unnecessary flights and preserve nature.
The culture of commemorating World Environment Day (WED) should be passed to our future generations. Action against environmental problems should start now and not wait for the future.
The United Nations will launch on 5 June 2021 (World Environment Day) the World Decade on Ecosystem Protection. Focusing on ecosystems in the next decade offers opportunity for saving the earth from unsustainable degradation, restoring ecosystem functions, enhancing provisioning functions and upholding aesthetic value.
Although the World Environment Day commemorated on 5 June inspires us to care more for the environment, greater focus should be placed on making the environment an issue on the agenda every day of our lives. The world cannot afford to live on a borrowed future due to lack of environmental stewardship.
From the Editorial Team of the Green Business Gazette, we wish all stakeholders, governments, corporates, civil society, communities and our readers a Happy Environment Day on 5 June and we encourage environmentalism beyond just this day. Our environment needs all of us to take action in order to avoid a crisis of our generation.