UNEP_WED 2010 "Gisele Bundchen"

UNEP_WED 2010 "Gisele Bundchen"
UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bundchen, supported by a global chorus of real people, brings the WED 2010 message of action to the world.
The world Environment day is celebrated every year on the 5th of June to increase worldwide awareness of environmental issues and to help motivate both individual and political action towards conservation. The United Nations General Assembly established World Environment Day in 1972 to commemorate the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. On the same day, the General Assembly created the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which is now the United Nations' principal agency for environmental action. Today, WED is celebrated in over more than 100 countries and the list is growing yearly.

The theme of WED 2010 is "Many Species. One Planet, One Future." The United Nations have declared the year 2010 as the International Year for biodiversity and encouraged the participation of different organization and individuals to raise awareness of the importance of conserving biodiversity for human well being and promote understanding of the economic value of biodiversity.

Biodiversity the variety of life on earth, is essential to sustaining the living network and system that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services that our life depends on and hence needs to be conserved.

India has some of the world's most bio diverse region. It hosts 2 major biodiversity hotspots: The Western Ghats and the Himalayas. The Western Ghats are a chain of mountains that run along the western edge of peninsular India, extending from the southern portion of Gujarat, through Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka, up to Kerala in the south. Conservative estimates place the number of species of microorganism, plants and animals in the Western Ghats in the range of 10,000- 15,000. Roughly 40% of these could be endemic. Such a magnitude of Biodiversity and the array of threats faced by the various components of biodiversity have together ranked the Western Ghats amongst the twenty-five biodiversity hotspots in the world.

Almost the entire stretch of the forest along the Western Ghats in Goa has been declared protected in the form of 6 sanctuaries and one National Park.Goa might be the tiniest state of India, but would soon face the brunt of climate change.

CEE in association with the Department of Science, technology and Environment, Govt. of Goa has initiated an awareness campaign to by organizing activities on climate change and biodiversity. The first step to this is the launch a website on climate change, which would act as an educational tool and help creating awareness on a global scale. This website would be the first of its kind by the state of Goa that is dedicated on Climate change and would be launched on the World Environment day 2010.

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