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2012 World Day to Combat Desertification to Focus on Land Degradation Neutrality
The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has announced the theme for the 2012 celebration of World Day to Combat Desertification. The annual event, which is celebrated on 17 June, will focus on “Healthy soil sustains your life: LET’S GO LAND-DEGRADATION NEUTRAL.”
In announcing the selection of the theme, the UNCCD Secretariat noted that, at the September 2012 UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Meeting on “Addressing desertification, land degradation and drought in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication,” many speakers suggested that the commitment to build a land-degradation neutral world should be an outcome from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
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