Earth Day: What is it, when is it and why is it important?
2024年4月11日 · Earth Day is an international day devoted to our planet. It draws attention to the environment and promotes conservation and sustainability. Each year on 22 April, around 1 billion people around the world take action to raise awareness of the climate crisis and bring about behavioural change to protect the environment.
On Earth Day, a look at how climate change is impacting health
2024年4月22日 · This Earth Day, let's recognize the intrinsic connection between planetary health and human health. By taking decisive action to mitigate climate change and protect our environment, we safeguard the well-being of current and future generations and preserve the beauty and diversity of life on Earth.
Earth Day: Here are 5 ways we can scale up climate solutions
2023年4月19日 · On April 22, the world will be marking Earth Day, a global day of environmental activism to bring about policy changes, mobilize funding and transform human behaviour to fight the climate crisis. Earth Day 2023 comes as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report has reinforced we are still way off-track when it comes ...
Earth Overshoot Day. What is it and why do we need it?
2023年8月3日 · This year, Earth Overshoot Day 2023 fell on 2 August, which is five days later than last year, but four of those days are due to integrating new data sets. For the next seven years, we need to push back Earth Overshoot Day by 19 days each year to reach the United Nation’s (UN) IPCC target of a 43% reduction in carbon emissions worldwide by ...
Earth Day: 4 big ideas for developing a sustainable plastics …
2024年4月22日 · The theme of Earth Day 2024 is Planet vs Plastics, to raise awareness of the issue of plastic pollution. UpLink the World Economic Forum's open innovation platform, is supporting innovative start-ups working on critical sustainability challenges, including the shift towards a more sustainable plastics economy.
Explainer: What is World Environment Day? - The World Economic …
2022年5月31日 · It is calculated annually by the Global Footprint Network (GFN) by dividing the amount of resources Earth can generate in a given year by human demand for resources in that year. In 2021 it was 29 July. The global slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed 2020 Earth Overshoot Day back to 22 August. The date for 2022 has yet to be calculated.
The EcoWatch guide to Earth Day 2023 - The World Economic Forum
2023年4月14日 · The Earth Day 2023 Festival will take place Saturday, April 16 in New York’s Union Square, while the Earth Day 2023 Virtual Stage will stream live on Wednesday, April 19. The Earth Day Festival will run from 12 to 6 p.m. ET with booths organized by area environmental groups and initiatives from 511NYRideshare to Grounds For A Peel Composting ...
Earth Day: How AI can solve manufacturing's waste problem
2021年4月22日 · Earth Day inspires many consumers to examine their recycling, composting and consumption. That’s all good, but it isn’t where the heart of the waste problem lies. The hyper-growth of the global economy has led to hyper-waste.
Technology can help us save the planet. But more than anything, …
2018年8月23日 · Every day new evidence of our unsustainable impact on the environment is emerging. The last five years have been the warmest five-year period on record, the Arctic warmed much faster than predicted and the UN estimates that in the last 10 years, climate-related disasters have caused $1.4 trillion worth of damage worldwide.
9 facts about global warming that you must definitely know
2017年4月21日 · The theme of this year’s Earth Day, on 22 April, is Environmental and Climate Literacy. The Earth Day Network, which coordinates the global awareness-raising day, is launching an ambitious drive to ensure every student in the world is “climate literate” when they leave high school - by Earth Day 2020.