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UNEP: Egypt’s Ali Abdo e-motorcycle tour among key Environment Day events
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will air a special LIVE broadcast of Egypt’s Ali Abdo’s electric motorcycle tour in Egyptian cities among five key events marking the World Environment Day 2022.
Ali Abdo, a sustainability and environmental activist campaigning for greater development of electric vehicles, holds the Guinness World Record for greatest distance on an electric motorcycle in 24 hours: 919.87 km in 2021.
Marking the World Environment Day, he will ride his electric motorcycle through Egyptian cities around the River Nile to meet students and government officials and deliver talks focused on the impacts of the climate crisis.
The UNEP’s Global Electric Mobility Program supports more than 50 low- and middle-income countries with the shift from fossil fuel to electric vehicles.
This builds upon the work of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles, which last year ended the production of leaded fuel after a 20-year campaign.
Other four key events marking the World Environment Day:
The UNEP will also air another four key events in Sweden, India, Romania and Australia marking the World Environment Day.
In Sweden, musicians from around the world will gather in Stockholm for a concert to raise awareness of the urgent need to end deforestation by 2030 and safeguard human and environmental health.
Julian Marley and Julian Lennon will perform at the concert. Lennon has debuted a new song that aligns with his fundraising work for projects related to indigenous, environmental and humanitarian well-being, as well as clean water accessibility.
In India, the Bhamla Foundation, a volunteer-driven non-governmental organization, will organize a cyclothon in Mumbai to promote greener forms of transport.
Transportation systems in the Indian city largely rely on fossil fuels, contributing to air pollution, which is the greatest environmental threat to public health globally. Air pollution caused an estimated 14,000 deaths and $2 billion in economic losses in Mumbai last year, according to UNEP partner IQAir.
Globally, nine out of 10 people breathe unclear air, and it causes one in nine deaths, UNEP data shows. The cyclothon, which followed a 10km route, gave thousands of cyclists and environmentalists a platform to encourage net-zero emissions.
In Romania, an E-waste collection campaign will be launched under The Green Project which has provided free collection of electronic waste and set up community drop-off points around Maramureș County.
Through additional incentives, including a lottery, the company raised awareness on the importance of proper e-waste recycling and the need to adopt circular economy model. The UNEP’s programs promote circularity – the practice of minimizing new resource inputs by reusing materials – and chemical and pollution management.
In Australia, twenty-four school children in Queanbeyan–Palerang, New South Wales, are using the popular video game Minecraft to re-envision their local community and incorporate sustainable living aspects to embody the idea of living in harmony with nature.
The young people aged 5–17 have shared their creations, at a Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council public screening ceremony showcasing the designs with commentary from their creators describing how they presented the World Environment Day theme.
Some of these included expanded green spaces featuring plenty of trees and flowers, communal gardens for fresh produce, and buildings with solar panels.
The UNEP-facilitated Playing for the Planet Alliance has enabled the planting of over one million trees and engaged 130 million gamers on themes relating to the environment. The 43 game studios that are members and associates of the alliance have committed to including environmental themes in games and embracing a collective shift to green energy, among other goals.
The UNEP will highlight celebrations around the globe of the World Environment Day 2022 which is held on June 5 under this year’s theme “living sustainably in harmony with nature.”
Governments and businesses will be using this day to make transformative global changes. With nature in emergency mode and amid the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, the need for action to protect the planet is now more important than ever.
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