{"id":15479,"date":"2023-05-16T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15479"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:43:03","slug":"world-environment-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/16\/world-environment-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"World Environment Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">In this blog:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#What-is-World-Environment-Day-?\">What is World Environment Day?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#What-is-this-year's-theme-?\">What is this year&#8217;s theme?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#How-you-can-make-a-difference\">How you can make a difference\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"What-is-World-Environment-Day-?\" style=\"text-align: center;\">What is World Environment Day?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Environment Day is a global platform to tackle environmental changes and has been led by the United Nations Environment Programme since 1973.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each year on the 5th of June, more than 150 countries and millions of people come together to take part in in-person activities, events and actions <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to help protect the planet we live on.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"What-is-this-year's-theme-?\" style=\"text-align: center;\">What is this year&#8217;s theme?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year a different environmental challenge is selected as a theme and a country is chosen as a host.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previous years have focused on pressing issues such as air pollution, illegal trade in wildlife, ecosystem restoration and many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year is the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. The theme will focus <\/span>on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience under the slogan &#8220;Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration&#8221;, with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosting the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/resources\/global-land-outlook\/overview#:~:text=On%20this%20occasion%2C%20the%20current,land%20degradation%20the%20day%20after.\">UN Convention to Combat Desertification<\/a> has reported that as much as 40% of the planet&#8217;s land is degraded. This impacts about half of the global population, threatening approximately 50% of the world&#8217;s GDP. Since 2000, there has been a 29% rise in both the frequency and duration of droughts. If immediate measures are not taken, it is projected that by 2050, droughts could impact over 75% of the global population.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"How-you-can-make-a-difference\" style=\"text-align: center;\">How you can make a difference<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can make small changes to your daily routine this World Environment Day and beyond that will make a big difference. Here\u2019s how you can get involved in helping to restore the planet!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Support brands that sustainably source materials<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Include more soil-friendly foods in your diet, such as lentils, beans and chickpeas<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Collect kitchen waste to use as compost for your garden<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Volunteer and contribute to the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Buy local to reduce greenhouse gas emissions<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Support local beekeepers by buying their products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can even make a difference when you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-tech\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recycle your tech<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/entertainment\/sell-dvds\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recycle DVDs<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/entertainment\/sell-cds\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CDs<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/entertainment\/trade-in-games\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">games<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-books\/recycle-books\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">books<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with musicMagpie &#8211; it\u2019s smart for you, smart for the planet! Switching to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/mobile-phones\">refurbished phones<\/a> is also a great way to keep products in circulation for longer&#8230; we even sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/category\/mobile-phones\/apple\/\">refurbished iPhone<\/a> models too.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog: What is World Environment Day? What is this year&#8217;s theme? How you can make a difference\u00a0 What is World Environment Day? World Environment Day is a global platform to tackle environmental changes and has been led by the United Nations Environment Programme since 1973.\u00a0 Each year on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2129],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15479"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17333,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions\/17333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}