Earth Day is celebrated across the world on 22 April. This time the annual event is being celebrated on Monday with the global theme ‘Planet vs Plastic’.
Earth Day was first celebrated on American college campuses in 1970, months after the massive oil spill in Santa Barbara.
In 2016 the United Nations chose 22 April as the date for the Paris Agreement. This agreement is considered an important agreement to be signed in the history of the climate and environmental movement. Earth Day
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Leaders of 196 countries came together on April 22 that year to adopt a legally binding treaty against global warming. Those countries are expected to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius under the agreement. So that greenhouse gas emissions should peak before 2025 and decline by 43% by 2030.
