Zero emission day (21/09)

Zero Emissions Day (ZeDay) – is an environmental date celebrated in many countries around the world annually on September 21.

Among the international days dedicated to the problems of protecting the environment and maintaining environmental balance, this date stands apart. In the 1980s, the idea was born in Canada to establish and hold an annual day in defense of the environment by reducing emissions of hydrocarbon combustion products (oil, gasoline, gas, coal) into the atmosphere. This is how an international date was born (which, however, does not have official status), celebrated annually on September 21 and called Zero Issue Day.

In 2008, a website was launched in Halifax, with the motto «Let's give our planet one day off a year». It was this Internet resource that put forward the idea of a moratorium on the burning of hydrocarbon products at least one day a year. The call was picked up by supporters of the idea and translated first into 10, and a year later – into more than 30 languages of the world, and then picked up on social networks. The address zeroemissionsday.org appeared on the Internet, and the holiday itself began to be called ZeDay for short.

Proponents of the theory that the combustion of hydrocarbon products is the primary cause of global warming are calling on everyone to stop burning oil, gas or coal once a year. This call applies to states, organizations, companies and even individuals. In addition to calling for a moratorium on the burning of oil, gas and coal, supporters of the « celebration» of Zero Emission (or Zero Emission) Day propose that everyone minimize the use of electricity generated by burning hydrocarbons.

The annual observance of the Day is supported by many environmental organizations and higher educational institutions, posting information about it on their websites. Scientists and proponents of the theory of global warming, caused, among other things, by the combustion processes of fossil fuels, point out that many natural disasters that we face today are the result of the warming process. Among such natural disasters they name hurricanes, tornadoes and tornadoes. The scale of natural disasters will increase with climate change on the planet, scientists say.

Among the main measures proposed by supporters of reducing emissions of fossil fuel combustion products into the atmosphere is the introduction of new energy sources and the gradual abandonment of the use of fossil energy sources and traditional technologies based on the consumption of energy generated from the combustion of hydrocarbon products.

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