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   What is WED
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Celebrate the biggest day for positive environmental action!


   World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations' principal vehicle
   for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment.
   Over the years it has grown to be a broad, global platform for public
   outreach that is widely celebrated by stakeholders in over 100
   countries. It also serves as the `people's day' for doing something
   positive for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a
   collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the
   planet.

   In support of the UN designation of 2014 as the International Year of
   Small Island Developing States (SIDS), WED this year will adopt SIDS in
   the broader context of climate change as its theme. Our objectives are
   to help build momentum towards the Third International Conference on
   SIDS in September and encourage a greater understanding of the
   importance of SIDS and of the urgency to help protect the islands in
   the face of growing risks and vulnerabilities, particularly as a result
   of climate change. We believe WED will be an excellent opportunity to
   raise a call for solidarity with the islands.

   "Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it."
   UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the 2014
   International Year of Small Islands and Developing States

Every Action Counts

   WED is the opportunity for everyone to realize not only the
   responsibility to care for the Earth and to become agents of change.

   WED 2013 generated global coverage and publicity with about 200,000
   blog posts and more than 26,000 articles published on WED between 1 and
   10 June 2013 alone. Our videos on WED were viewed by close to 120
   million people on digital screens in Times Square in New York,
   Piccadilly in London, and at Live Windows (Benetton stores) in Milan,
   London, Munich, Barcelona and Almaty. On social media, among Twitter's
   reported 200 million active users, WED was among the top 10 most talked
   about topics in at least 15 countries on 5 June,  with an estimated
   47.6 million impressions on the Day itself.

Register Your Activity Today and Be Counted

   How will you make your voice heard this year for the environment? The
   call this year is to recognize that we all face the same challenges and
   are connected and united by our common goal of a sustainable and
   prosperous life for all on this planet. The call is to raise our voice
   in solidarity with one another, particularly with the citizens of the
   small island states. Whether it is to  organize clean up campaigns,
   food waste reduction initiatives, walk-to-work days, plastic bans, art
   exhibits, tree-planting drives, concerts, dance recitals, recycling
   drives, social media campaigns and different contests  - every action
   counts. When multiplied by a global chorus, our individual voices and
   actions become exponential in its impact.
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