World Environment Day: Launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030

The United Nations Environment Programme calls on you to add your voices to World Environment Day 2021. Since 1974, World Environment Day has been celebrated every year on 5 June; engaging governments, businesses, celebrities and citizens to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue. Hosted this year by Pakistan, World Environment Day 2021 will formally launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). The UN Decade is our opportunity to redress ecosystem degradation and loss that has been happening worldwide. There has never been a more urgent need to restore damaged ecosystems than now. This World Environment Day, join #GenerationRestoration and #WorldEnvironmentDay to revive and protect our ecosystems. This is the generation that can make peace with nature.

We invite you to participate in events and initiatives and organize your own, surrounding 5 June.

Ecosystem restoration can take many forms: Growing trees, greening cities, rewilding gardens, changing diets or cleaning up rivers and coasts. Organize/join a (socially distanced) clean-up or raise awareness on social media. Keep an eye out for our forthcoming social media challenges and other opportunities by signing-up for email updates. You will receive latest updates, stories, news and tips for World Environment Day!

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It aims to halt the degradation of ecosystems, and restore them to achieve global goals. Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity.

The UN Decade runs from 2021 through 2030, which is also the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and the timeline scientists have identified as the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change.

The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the UN Decade following a proposal for action by over 70 countries from all latitudes. View the resolution here.

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The UN Decade is building a strong, broad-based global movement to ramp up restoration and put the world on track for a sustainable future. That will include building political momentum for restoration as well as thousands of initiatives on the ground.

Through communications, events and a dedicated web platform, the UN Decade will provide a hub for everyone interested in restoration to find projects, partners, funding and the knowledge they need to make their restoration efforts a success.

Find out how you can take part in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.