World Environment Day is an important initiative launched by the United Nations in 1974 to drive global awareness as well as action focused on the environment.
The theme for World Environment Day 2020 was Biodiversity – which was also one of the Top five risks identified in the Global Risks Report, 2020 of the World Economic Forum.
The report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) highlighted that the negative impacts on biodiversity affect a majority of the sustainability development goals.