Correct Answer - Option 3 : Colombia
The correct answer is Colombia.
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Colombia will host World Environment Day 2020 and focuses on the theme of biodiversity.
- It will be done in partnership with Germany.
- The theme of World Environment Day 2020 is Biodiversity.
- World Environment Day is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment.
- World Environment Day is a powerful platform to accelerate, amplify and engage people, communities, and governments around the world to take action on critical environmental challenges facing the planet
- Major corporations, non-governmental organizations, communities, governments, and celebrities from across the world adopt the World Environment Day brand to champion environmental causes.
- World Environment Day takes place every year on 5 June.
- It is the United Nations’ flagship day for promoting worldwide awareness and action for the environment.
- UNEP is the leading global voice on the environment.
- It provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at the helm, over 150 countries participate each year.
- World Environment Day was celebrated for the first time in 1974 under the “Only One Earth” slogan.
- Pakistan will host the World Environment Day 2021 event.
- The theme of World Environment Day 2021 is " Ecosystem Restoration".
- UN Environment Day was celebrated at the headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, by presenting the first of its Global 500 awards to environmental champions including Wangari Maathai in 1987.
- Through 2003, the awards become the backbone of World Environment Day celebrations.
