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POP Leaders call for action at the #OnlyOneEarthActNow event on World Environment Day
June 4, 2022 - June 5, 2022
On June 4-5, 2022, the Act Now Foundation organized #OnlyOneEarthActNow, the “world’s longest and largest environmental event online,” bringing together organizations and individuals from around the world to present their climate actions, share their insights, and generate awareness about the restoration of the environment. Organized on the occasion of World Environment Day and 50 years of the United Nations Environment Programme, this 24-hour, non-stop event featured over 125 speakers from 75 countries.
POP leaders from around the world participated as speakers on the following themes:
| POP Youth Mentor, Finance and Enterprise, Kevin Morales Münstermann | Resilience 2020 (Eco-Technologies) |
| POP Senior Mentor, Dr. Ash Pachauri | Urgent need for Youth-led Climate Action |
| POP Honorary Distinguished Mentor, Norma Patricia Muñoz Sevilla | Arrival of Sargassum on Quintana Roo, Mexico and its impacts |
| POP Youth Mentor and Ambassador for Africa, Samuel Chijioke Okorie | Youth Action for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation |
| POP Youth Mentors, Drishya Pathak and Komal Mittal | Climate Change and Public Health |
| POP Youth Mentor, Philo Magdalene A | Environmental Justice and Equity: An Exploration through the POP Movement |
| POP Youth Mentor, Ricardo Andrés Delgado Lander | The Importance of Media for the Successful Implementation of Sustainable Projects |
| POP Youth Mentor, Nahid Perez Ayala | Role of education and youth in the climate movement |
| POP Youth Mentor and Ambassador for Africa, Meda Hope Malinga | Civic Education: A Major Setback to Africa’s Development |
| POP Sustainability Ambassador and Mentor, Ivan Ransom | Resilience 2020 (Circular Economy) |
Other notable speakers included Dr. Erik Solheim, former Under Secretary General of UN and sixth Executive Director of UNEP; Natalia Alekseeva, Coordinator, UNEP Decade on Ecosystem Restoration; Miss Earth 2021, Destiny Wagner; Miss Earth, 2014, Jamie Herrell; Miss Earth, 2010, Nicole Faria; Padmashree Awardee, eminent dancer, Pratibha Prahlad; 10-year old India’s own Greta Thunberg, Licypriya Kangujam; 14-year old Plastic Pickup Girl from The Netherlands, Lilly Plat; disciple of Mahesh Yogi and Vice Chancellor of Caribbean Maharishi University, Dr. Raja Luis; daughter of Wangari Mathai and Vice President for World Resource Institute, Wanjira Mathai; Vice Admiral, Pradeep Chauhan (retd); National Geographic Explorer, Dr Niall McCann; and 1st woman Director of Zoological Survey of India, Dhriti Banerjee.
The event was organized together with Environment Online (ENO), Finland, Treebuddy.Earth, Finland, Plant and Care for Peace (Pacfpeace), Finland, Brookfield International School, Chandigarh, Glamanand, India, Envirate, Finland, Nature Education Society of Taiwan (NEST), Taiwan, The POP Movement, USA and World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF), USA. The event was streamed on Facebook and widely covered in media by The Print, Press Trust of India (PTI), and ANI News International.
