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Soil World Day: life under our feet

The United Nations will celebrate the International Year of Soils next 5 December 2015. Soil, a precious resource on which depends our survival, is a fragile resource, threatened by natural and human pressures that are degrading, often irreversibly, its irreplaceable productive, environmental and socio-cultural functions.

A real "soil consumption" that involves, according to ISPRA report , an irreversible loss of 6.7 square meters per second in Italy due to its deep alteration and the artificial covering with cement or asphalt (data from Soil Consumption in Italy - edition 2015)

  • Soil World Day: life under our feet
  • 2015-12-05T09:30:00+00:00
  • 2015-12-05T18:30:00+00:00
  • The United Nations will celebrate the International Year of Soils next 5 December 2015. Soil, a precious resource on which depends our survival, is a fragile resource, threatened by natural and human pressures that are degrading, often irreversibly, its irreplaceable productive, environmental and socio-cultural functions. A real "soil consumption" that involves, according to  ISPRA report , an irreversible loss of 6.7 square meters per second in Italy due to its deep alteration and the artificial covering with cement or asphalt (data from Soil Consumption in Italy - edition 2015)
  • When Dec 05, 2015 from 09:30 AM to 06:30 PM (GMT+0 / UTC0)
  • Where Rome
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In conjunction with the Soil World Day, ISPRA organizes next 5 December the event "Soil World Day: Life under our feet" together with the scientific community, environmental associations and the productive sector with the aim to inform, disseminate, stimulate andinvolve the public opinion on the importance of the soil resource

Further information :

consumosuolo@isprambiente.it

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