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World Environment Day
June 06, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Health In Focus
CO2-KICK THE HABIT! TOWARDS A LOW CARBON ECONOMY
The World Environment Day, celebrated on 5 June each year, is utilized by the United Nations to generate awareness about the environment, to initiate new policies and to provide the momentum for the already existing ones.
The theme this year is Co2- Kick the habit! Towards a low carbon economy.
A carbon footprint is an excellent way to evaluate the environmental damage by a person. It is expressed in equivalent tons of CO2 and is defined as the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to support human activities.
Climate change being the focal issue of our planet, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has requested companies, communities and countries to discover ways to reduce their green gas emissions.
The core points of their drive includes highlighting the following-
Resources/initiatives that accentuate low carbon economics
Low carbon lifestyles
Improved energy efficiency
Alternative eco-friendly energy sources
Eco-friendly consumption of energy
Conservation of forests
The World Environment Day, which began in 1972, is now celebrated globally in many different ways, such as rallies, posters, clean-up campaigns, tree planting and several more.
Celebrity tree-planting ceremonies and crying Go Green till you go green in the face are of little use if the worlds majority are ignorant of the goings on. There are many more who believe that no single individual can help to reverse the damages.
Future wars are forecasted, not over fair maidens nor over land and money but over the precious, life- sustaining commodityWater!
We must realize that our collective everyday activities are snowballing into a global crisis that threatens our very existence.
This is when conscientious campaigns, at grass root levels, will generate awareness, which may be converted into positive action. All global policies should be based on a common environmental agenda, binding humanity in a single cause.
Let us bid to save our planet by closely examining our daily deeds. Let us ensure that our carbon footprints do not get any longer!
Source-Medindia
Dr. REEJA THARU/L
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05/02/2009
Since 1972 notification of WED, should we stop for the coming year to ask our selves, qulatitatively and quntatively achevements, how much we spent on celebration, how much we spent on tree planting, can we evaluate and equalize all, climate change combat = sustainable tree planting, so we must green and keep green our planet, but who is responsibility, the government, the people, the ngos, the gos or all together, if and only if the beleive in greening our behaviors. gren creep organization- khartoum- sudan
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