1972 The United Nations held the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, with 1 13 countries participating. The meeting discussed the action plan to protect the global environment and adopted the Declaration on the Human Environment. The meeting suggested that the United Nations General Assembly designate June 5th, the opening day of this meeting, as "World Environmental Protection Day". This proposal was accepted and adopted by the 27th UN General Assembly in June 5438+the same year 10. On June 5th every year, countries all over the world will carry out large-scale publicity and commemorative activities on environmental protection, so as to arouse people all over the world's attention to the protection of the environment on which human beings depend, and consciously take action to participate in the joint efforts of environmental protection. At the same time, governments and the United Nations system are required to make contributions to promoting the environmental protection process.

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