World Environment Day Dinner in Bega

World Environment Day is the United Nations Environment Program’s most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.

“Connecting People to Nature”, the theme for 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share. This year’s theme invites you to think about how we are part of nature and how intimately we depend on it. It challenges us to find fun and exciting ways to experience and cherish this vital relationship. 

Bournda EEC has been hosting an annual dinner to celebrate World Environment Day for the last 40 years and this year the guest speaker is Dr John Merson. 

Associate Professor John Merson was the director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies until 2012 and head of the Graduate Research Program in Environmental Policy and Management at University of NSW.

He is presently the executive director of The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, and has been a consultant to the UNESCO, APEC, IUCN, DEST and Department of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Australian Indonesia Steering Committee on Science and Technology, and the Australia Korea Forum.

He is the author of seven books and a wide range of academic papers and research covering issues of environmental and development, adaptive environmental policy and management and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

For his journalistic work, he is the recipient of a United Nations Media Peace Prize.

The dinner will also feature wonderful creative art and writing by local students which will then be displayed in local libraries throughout the Bega Valley.

Tickets can be purchased from Candelo Books with a cash sale or through Bournda EEC on 6494 5009.  

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