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Ammon News - Jordan is taking part on Sunday, in 2022 World Environment Day (WED) celebrations, held under the theme: "Only One Earth," focusing on ‘Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature.’

The Ministry of Environment's celebrations ultimately seek to bring about changes in policies and choices towards "cleaner" lifestyles. Its activities included participation of Minister of Environment, Muawiya Radaideh, in the Stockholm 50+ conference, on behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah II, according to its statement.

Under this effort, ecological awareness messages and videos were aired on the ministry's official website and its directorates' social platforms, in addition to a campaign aimed to distribute multi-use bags, in cooperation with the United Nations Program United Development (UNDP) in all the Kingdom's governorates, the statement noted.

Jordan is committed to working with all international and local partners to address climate and nature crises and preserve and rehabilitate environment, in line with national commitments within international agreements to counter the three global crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, Radaideh said.

Stressing importance of "serious and sustainable" action to preserve environment and counter hurdles, he noted nature suffers from forest fires, high temperatures, deforestation, devastating catastrophic floods and overhunting that have influenced and still negatively affect biodiversity.

The 2022 slogan "Only One Earth" is a current "decisive and influential" issue, he noted, pointing out that the whole world is facing critical challenges, which highlight the importance of facing the "wide-scale, unprecedented" global crises in this regard, he noted.

The crises' destructive effects were reflected in a way that threatens social peace and food security, which requires intensifying international efforts to combat threats that affect the planet and the environment in particular, "as quickly as possible and take various measures and drastic solutions to confront challenges, he said.

Ministry of Environment, in partnership with all national and international agencies and institutions, has taken many "effective" measures to protect and rehabilitate the Kingdom's eco-systems to achieve best practices to preserve the human environment, including several guidelines on global eco-management, he pointed out.