22 April: World Earth Day

• 22 Apr 2022

The World Earth Day, also known as the International Mother Earth Day, is observed every year on April 22.

• The day focuses on global climate crisis that is worsening with each passing day.
• The theme of Earth Day 2022 is to ‘Invest in our planet’.

A Concerned World towards Mother Earth

• In 1992, Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests were adopted by more than 178 Governments at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the first major conference in which Sustainable Development was the main issue discussed by member states.
• From then on, all efforts to conserve the environment experienced an exponential growth: the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002; the declaration of 2008 as the International Year of Planet Earth; the UN official Mother Earth Day Declaration; Rio+20 - resulting in a focused political outcome document, which contains clear and practical measures for implementing sustainable development - and recently, the Climate Action Summit 2019 and COP25, both focusing on the achievement of the Paris Agreement.