World Environment Day will be celebrated the world over, including Pakistan on June 5. The day is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates world-wide awareness about environment and enhances attention and action.
The World Environment Day slogan selected for 2007 is Melting Ice - a Hot Topic? In support of International Polar Year, the WED theme selected for 2007 focuses on the effects that climate change is having on polar ecosystems and communities, and the ensuing consequences around the world. The World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of Stockholm conference on the human environment.
Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of UNEP. On this day, in 1972, the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment was held in Sweden. There was a large gathering from all over the world and people expressed their concerns on increasing environmental problems. The main international celebrations of the WED 2007 will be held in the City of Tromso, Norway, a city north of the Arctic Circle self-styled as "The Gateway to the Arctic".
WED is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated with an international exposition through the week of June 5. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), also created in 1972, uses WED to stimulate awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and public action. The day's agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership, which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.