World Environment Day and Central Asia Environmental Diplomacy
The theme of this World Environment Day is raise your voice, don’t raise sea levels. For Central Asian Region it is more ‘raise the cooperation, don’t make the region a desert’. World Environment Day is celebrated on June 05 every year across the globe to stimulate awareness on environmental issues. The call of the Environment Day which was adopted during first UN Conference on Human Environment in 1972 may rekindle the hope of environmental diplomacy in the most fragile region like Central Asia to address common environmental challenges. With intrinsically transboundary nature of environmental challenges-water security, climate change induced disasters, ice capped mountain and its ecology, saving endangered species like snow leopard, countries without resorting to environmental diplomacy unilateral measures will be ineffective. (далее…)






