World Environment Day 2021

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5^th to raise awareness of the environment and enhance the attention and action towards protecting it. The theme of World Environment Day 2021 is Ecosystem Restoration. Unless we come up with effective remedies to the wounds of nature that man has already inflicted, the survival of life on Earth will be uncertain in the future. Therefore, prompt attention needs to be paid to ecosystem restoration in the face of scarcity of natural resources, the severity of natural disasters, and climate change. UN Environment Programme launched the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration on World Environment Day 2021.

Due to the Covid- 19 Global pandemic situation, the Center for Environmental Initiatives, University of Colombo, celebrated World Environment Day 2021 by conducting an online webinar to educate the university community on timely environmental concerns. Recognizing the importance of adopting green means into every field, the CEI invited three environmentalists in different fields as keynote speakers of the event.