Earth day, 2021

In News: Earth Day was recently observed on April 22nd all over the world to show appreciation for environmental conservation.

About Earth Day

The first Earth Day was held in 1970, when 20 million people took to the streets to protest environmental destruction.
The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, as well as other problems like smog and contaminated rivers, sparked the event.
The United Nations declared April 22nd to be “International Mother Earth Day” in 2009.
On Earth Day 2016, the historic Paris Agreement was signed, bringing nearly 200 countries together to set a collective goal to reduce global greenhouse emissions.
The aim of Earth Day is to create the world’s largest environmental movement in order to bring about positive change for people and the environment.
Its aim is to broaden, inform, and mobilise the global environmental movement.
International Mother Earth Day, according to the United Nations, is observed to remind us that the Earth and its habitats provide us with life and sustenance.
It acknowledges a shared obligation under the 1992 Rio Declaration, which seeks to foster peace with nature and the Earth in order to establish a just balance between the needs of current and future generations of humanity.
It offers an opportunity to raise global public consciousness about the issues facing the planet’s well-being and all the life it supports.

What does Earth Day 2021 mean?

The annual celebrations will be held for the 51st time in 2021.
‘Restore Our Earth’ is the theme for Earth Day 2021.
Natural processes, new green technology, and creative thinking that will preserve the world’s habitats are the themes for Earth Day 2021.

Earth Hour

The annual Earth Hour programme, which started in 2007, is organised by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF).
Every year on the last Saturday in March, it takes place.
It urges people in more than 180 countries to switch off the lights between the hours of 8.30 and 9.30 p.m. local time.