Things to do on Earth Day

Earth Day is one of the biggest environmental protest movements on the planet. The event began in the United States of America in 1970 and is held every year on April 22.

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), there are a number of actions on can take to participate in Earth Day.

These may include small home or classroom projects like planting a herb garden or picking up litter. People also volunteer to plant trees, join other ecological projects or take part in street protests about climate change.

Official Earth Day campaigns and projects aim to increase environmental literacy and bring together like-minded people or groups to address issues such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and other challenges, the WEF adds.

Yearly, around one billion people from more than 190 countries join demonstrations, projects and initiatives in efforts to help protect the planet.

Without urgent action to curb emissions, the world is on course to reach 3.2°C above pre-industrial levels, the UN says.

The WEF noted that Earth Day went beyond the US in 1990. Around 200 million people from 141 countries joined efforts to boost recycling around the world that year, paving the way for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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