World Environment Day 2022 will be hosted by Sweden on June 5 — 50 years after the Stockholm Conference that first designated this day to galvanize action on one of the most urgent challenges of our time: climate change. This year’s theme — “Only One Earth” — reminds us that this planet is humanity’s only home, with finite resources that we must safeguard. Much has changed since the Stockholm Conference of 1972, including the increasing interconnectedness of humanity. The last two years have been a stark reminder that we truly are “Only One Earth”: Viruses and wars do not stop at borders — and neither do carbon emissions or environmental disasters.

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Source: Sophie Sirtaine, Claudia McKay, CGAP Leadership Essay series

Illustration: Hoang Long Ly, CGAP Photo Contest