World Environment Day is held each year on June 5. World Environment Day is celebrated in many ways in countries such as Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, Spain and the United States. It is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated with an international exposition through the week of June 5.
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of UNEP.
It is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations (UN) stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The UN World Environment Day is not a public holiday, so public life is not affected.
