World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year on June 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The 2014 theme for World Environment Day will focus on 'Small Islands and Climate Change', the official slogan for the year 2014 is ‘Raise Your Voice Not The Sea Level’.
The UN General Assembly declared 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). World Environment Day (WED) 2014 will be celebrated under the theme of SIDS, with the goal of raising awareness of their unique development challenges and successes regarding a range of environmental problems, including climate change, waste management, unsustainable consumption, degradation of natural resources, and extreme natural disasters. UNEP is also soliciting votes for the 2014 WED slogan through 5 March 2014. The winning slogan will be used to call on the global WED community to take action for islands.
Island nations around the world are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters and rising seas. The impact of climate change on small islands states around the world are the central platform to learn a number of environmental problems with only limited resources.
There are over a thousand islands in India which are grouped according to their locations in (1) Bay of Bengal (2) Arabian Sea and (3) Indian Ocean.
In Bay of Bengal, there are two sub groups of islands. The largest group is Andaman & Nicobar Islands with 572 islands, though only 34 of these are inhabited permanently and next comes The Sundarban group of islands with 102 islands in Indian part, amongst which 54 islands are inhabited and 48 islands are declared as World Heritage Site - Sundarban Biosphere Reserve. There are about 200 islands separated by India's West Bengal and Khulna division of Bangladesh with mangrove coverage and Bay of Bengal fed saline water, separated by about 400 interconnected tidal rivers, creeks and canals.
National Action Plan on Climate Change, Government of India released India’s first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) outlining existing and future policies and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation on June 30, 2008. The plan identifies eight core “national missions” running through 2017 emphasizing the overriding priority of maintaining high economic growth rates to raise living standards, the plan “identifies measures that promote our development objectives while also yielding co-benefits for addressing climate change effectively.” It says these national measures would be more successful with assistance from developed countries, and pledges that India’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions “will at no point exceed that of developed countries even as we pursue our development objectives.”
These National Missions are (1) National Solar Mission (2) National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (3) National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (4) National Water Mission (5) National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (6) National Mission for a “Green India” (7) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (8) National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change with other programmes.
Under this background, Birla Institute Of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India will observe 5th June, 2014 at its Kolkata Campus.
The 2014 theme for World Environment Day will focus on 'Small Islands and Climate Change', the official slogan for the year 2014 is ‘Raise Your Voice Not The Sea Level’.
The UN General Assembly declared 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). World Environment Day (WED) 2014 will be celebrated under the theme of SIDS, with the goal of raising awareness of their unique development challenges and successes regarding a range of environmental problems, including climate change, waste management, unsustainable consumption, degradation of natural resources, and extreme natural disasters. UNEP is also soliciting votes for the 2014 WED slogan through 5 March 2014. The winning slogan will be used to call on the global WED community to take action for islands.
Island nations around the world are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters and rising seas. The impact of climate change on small islands states around the world are the central platform to learn a number of environmental problems with only limited resources.
There are over a thousand islands in India which are grouped according to their locations in (1) Bay of Bengal (2) Arabian Sea and (3) Indian Ocean.
In Bay of Bengal, there are two sub groups of islands. The largest group is Andaman & Nicobar Islands with 572 islands, though only 34 of these are inhabited permanently and next comes The Sundarban group of islands with 102 islands in Indian part, amongst which 54 islands are inhabited and 48 islands are declared as World Heritage Site - Sundarban Biosphere Reserve. There are about 200 islands separated by India's West Bengal and Khulna division of Bangladesh with mangrove coverage and Bay of Bengal fed saline water, separated by about 400 interconnected tidal rivers, creeks and canals.
National Action Plan on Climate Change, Government of India released India’s first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) outlining existing and future policies and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation on June 30, 2008. The plan identifies eight core “national missions” running through 2017 emphasizing the overriding priority of maintaining high economic growth rates to raise living standards, the plan “identifies measures that promote our development objectives while also yielding co-benefits for addressing climate change effectively.” It says these national measures would be more successful with assistance from developed countries, and pledges that India’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions “will at no point exceed that of developed countries even as we pursue our development objectives.”
These National Missions are (1) National Solar Mission (2) National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (3) National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (4) National Water Mission (5) National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (6) National Mission for a “Green India” (7) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (8) National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change with other programmes.
Under this background, Birla Institute Of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India will observe 5th June, 2014 at its Kolkata Campus.
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