"World Environment Day"

Includes release of a New Forest Report

Jun 1, 2011 - Worldwide events and the release of a new report supporting the Year of Forests 2011 takes place on World Environment Day.

On Sunday, June 5, 2011, global events supporting the 39th World Environment Day will continue the year-long celebration of the United Nations-sponsored “International Year of Forests.”

India will be the host nation for the worldwide event and the UN Environmental Program will release a new report during a ceremony in New Delhi that outlines the green economy potential of global forests.

"We need a strong ethic of conservation and in this role, World Environment Day is a powerful catalyst and voice,” said Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister for Environment and Forests. “There must be limits on how and where we encroach on the natural world for without them habitats will be paved over, rivers ruined, corals bleached and forests unwittingly plowed for agriculture."

This year's World Environment Day theme is “Forests: Nature at Your Service,” and is meant to draw attention to “the crucial environmental, economic and social roles played by the world's forests.”

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UNEP will release the Forests in a Green Economy {13page pdf - a synthesis} report in New Delhi on Sunday, June 5th just as a week-long international summit on the sustainable management of tropical forest ecosystems in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong Borneo basins wraps-up in Brazzaville, Congo. {continued}

Forests in a Green Economy - a synthesis