UN Environment Chief Erik Solheim has said that the World Environment Day (WED) 2018 to be hosted by India on Tuesday is expected to be the most "exciting and inspiring WED ever".
Noting that WED will be a celebration and a call to action and leadership, Solheim said India is the "perfect" place for that to happen.
World Environment Day (WED) celebrations has already begun in the national capital and across the country from June.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to chair the plenary session on June 5, where all state environment ministers will also be present, which will culminate the five-day celebrations.
"We're expecting this to be the most exciting and inspiring World Environment Day ever!," Solheim told PTI.
June 5 was designated as World Environment Day by the UN General Assembly to commemorate the opening of the Stockholm Conference on Human Development. Annual celebrations of World Environment Day began in 1974. The theme of WED 2018 is Beat Plastic Pollution
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