Think.Eat.Save! - Today is World Environment Day!

Bonn, 5 June 2013 - Today is World Environment Day (WED) and it will be celebrated under the theme 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, one in every seven people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 children under the age of five die daily from hunger.

Given this enormous imbalance in lifestyles and the resultant devastating effects on the environment, this year’s theme – Think.Eat.Save – encourages people to become more aware of the environmental impact of the food choices they make and empowers them to make informed decisions.

World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. Activities take place all year round and climax on 5 June every year. World Environment Day began in 1972 and has grown to become one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.

For more information about this year’s WED theme please visit the UNEP website at http://www.unep.org/wed/theme/.