CHINA: The world will witness and celebrate the 38th World Environment Day (WED) today.

The WED theme for 2009 chosen by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is “Your Planet Needs You! Unite to Combat Climate Change.”

World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in October 1972, to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and adoption of the Human Environment Declaration in June of the same year.

Another solution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

From 1974, the UNEP annually chooses a theme for world environment day to boost worldwide awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and action.

As the development of industrialization, human beings created great wealth by making use of fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil, which has also brought on serious environment problems caused by the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Beijing, Thursday, Xinhua