Like every June 5, the anniversary of World Environment Day is celebrated at a planetary level. In Uruguay, the hierarch responsible for the portfolio issued a greeting and noted that our country “will host the first meeting of the International Negotiating Committee on the plastics agreement,” as announced by the Minister of the Environment Adrian Pena.
The minister’s demonstrations are within the framework of World Environment Day. The hierarch stated that a total of “More than a thousand people from all over the world” will arrive in our country for the event.
Since 1974, June 5 has been celebrated around the world as World Environment Day.
The goal of the celebration is “to promote global awareness and action in favor of environmental protection.” On this occasion, half a century is commemorated since the inauguration of the first World Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden.
It was the first world conference to make the environment a topic of international relevance. It adopted a series of principles for the sound management of the environment, including the Stockholm Declaration and Plan of Action for the human environment, which placed environmental issues at the forefront of international concerns, which has gradually gradually increasing due to the emergency that our planet faces, with three interconnected crises: climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution on a global scale.
