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Takeaways:
- On Earth Day, over 1 billion people from more than 190 countries join demonstrations, projects and initiatives in efforts to help protect the planet.
- Earth Day began in 1970 and since then has led to the formation of the UN Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Earth Day is important today as its message stresses the need to take urgent action to address global warming.
