World Earth Day 2023: Date, Theme, History, Significance – Every year, Earth Day is celebrated on 22 April across the world, aimed at encouraging people to come together for environmental protection. committees conduct events across 193 countries in the world with the help of many other organizations.
Earth Week is held from 16 to 22 April every year for educating people about Earth Day, climate change and the need to take steps against it.
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World Earth Day 2023: Theme
- The theme for World Earth Day is in continuation of the 2022 theme, “Invest in Our Planet”, aimed at focusing on the message of making effort to save our planet far and wide.
The five feature programs of the Earth Day 2023 theme are:
- Sustainable Fashion
- The Great Global Cleanup
- Canopy Project
- Climate and Environmental Literacy
- Food and Environment, and the Global Earth Challenge
World Earth Day 2023: History
In 1969, peace activist John McConnell thought of the idea of Earth Day at a UNESCO Conference to honour the Earth and maintain peace on it.
In the United States, The first earth day was celebrated on 22 April 1970. In 2016, Earth Day became official by signing the Paris Agreement, an intergovernmental treaty for climate protection.