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World Environment Day

The UN's biggest day for the environment: clean-ups, plantations and the long work of looking after land and water.

At a glanceIn 8 months

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5 Jun 2027
Marked by
United Nations Environment Programme
Causes
Environment
Schedule VII
item iv
SDGs
13, 15

Tags are a guide to what the day is about. They don’t mean a piece of work qualifies as CSR spending.

Story ideas

  1. 1

    A clean-up drive's numbers: volunteers, hours and kilos collected

  2. 2

    Saplings planted last year: how many are alive now

  3. 3

    A campus that cut its waste in half

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Drives you can join

No drives in these causes are open right now. NGOs can plan one for the day from their dashboard.

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