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World Habitat Day 2019: Significance, Theme of the Habitat Day
World Habitat Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October every year. In 2019, World Habitat Day is going to celebrate on October 7, 2019. The aim of the day is to think about the condition of human settlements and the fundamental right to adequate haven.
The day is additionally proposed to remind the world that we as a whole have the power and the responsibility to shape the eventual fate of our urban areas and towns.
This year, World Habitat Day is celebrated on October 7. The United Nations had first observed World Habitat Day in 1986 and the host city was Nairobi with the theme “Shelter is My Right”.
World Habitat Day Significance
World Habitat Day is celebrated in a few nations including India, China, Mexico, Poland, Uganda, and the United States. On this day, numerous exercises are organized to review the issues of speedy urbanization and its effect on the environment.
Additionally, one of the significant features of this day is the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor award which was propelled by the United Nations Human Settlements Program in 1989. It is presently the most esteemed human settlement award in the world.
It expects to recognize the activities which have made extraordinary contributions in different fields, for example, shelter provision, featuring the predicament of the homeless, leadership in post-conflict reconstruction and creating and improving human settlements and the quality of urban life.
World Habitat Day is celebrated in a few nations including India, China, Mexico, Poland, Uganda, and the United States. On this day, numerous activities are organized to review the issues of rapid urbanization and its effect on the environment.
World Habitat Day 2019: Theme
This year the theme for World Habitat Day 2019 is “Frontier technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth.” The motivation behind the current year’s theme is supporting the helping of innovative frontier technologies to sustainable waste management to accomplish a feasible improvement goal.
“Solutions begin with small steps individuals can take to alter the way our cities function. We must reduce the amount of waste we produce, and, at the same time, start seeing it as a valuable resource that can be re-used and recycled, including for energy,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
UN-Habitat makes plain the need to plan urban communities so as to dodge the chaotic development of urban spreads and all the related issues that are made as a result.
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