International Day for Biological Diversity - 22 May 2013 - Water and Biodiversity

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity 2013. Venue: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya. -> Programme


  World Environment Day, 5 June 2013
The theme for this year’s World Environment Day celebrations is Think.Eat.Save. Think.Eat.Save is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, 1 in every 7 people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 children under the age of 5 die daily from hunger.