【21】World Environment Day 2015

Every year, the United Nations Environment Program honors World Environment Day on June 5 to raise awareness about environmental issues and call for action.

This year’s theme for WED – Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care – therefore expresses the challenge of creating opportunities for inclusive and sustainable economic development, while attempting to stabilize the rate of resource use and reduce environmental impacts. China announced the theme of this year’s event: Live in a green lifestyle.

The topic is a particularly powerful one, because there’s room for everyone to take a moment to question how we live and how it impacts the planet. The theme asks everyone to evaluate our consumer habits: how we shop, eat and travel.

China is facing with the resources and environment pressure, the main pollutant emissions close to or more than the status of the environmental capacity. The environment quality is poor, hazard, high risk, while the social public demand and expectation gap is larger. Therefore, with improving the environment quality, intensifying pollution control at the same time, the whole society should advocate thrift and civilized healthy rational consumption, promote public green consumption concept and behavior.