Sustainability Calendar — What’s happening in February 2022

Helping you to keep informed, take part in campaigns and plan climate action in February 2022

Kevin Jones
Sustainability Calendar
2 min readFeb 1, 2022

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February’s Sustainability Calendar (graphic: author)

Welcome to my monthly overview of the Sustainability Calendar. The full year-long calendar is here.

Everything happening this month:

Sometime this month: publication of IPCC 6 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group II Report “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”

Until Monday, 21 February: Big Schools’ Birdwatch (UK)

Wednesday, 2 February: World Wetlands Day

Sunday, 6 February: the final episode of The Green Planet, from the BBC.

Monday, 7 to Sunday, 13 February: Student Volunteering Week in the UK

Animal awareness days in February (graphic: author)

Monday, 14 February: World Bonobo Day

Tuesday, 15 February: World Hippopotamus Day

Thursday, 17 February: Random Acts of Kindness Day (international)

Saturday, 19 February (third Saturday in February): World Pangolin Day

Sunday, 20 February:

Monday, 21 February to Sunday, 6 March: Fairtrade Fortnight in the UK

Other observances in February (graphic: author)

Monday, 21 February: International Mother Language Day

Sunday, 27 February: International Polar Bear Day

Monday, 28 February to Wednesday, 2 March: Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi. The theme this year is “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”

I need your help to make this the best resource it can be. If there is an event missing, let me know either in the comments or on social media.

Links to previous monthly summaries:

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Kevin Jones
Sustainability Calendar

Maritime Sustainability Specialist. Editor of Rethink Convenience and author of the Live Circular newsletter