Agenda Programme of World Soil Day 2025.
Healthy soils for healthy cities.
Healthy soils are the foundation of life on Earth. Each year on 5 December, World Soil Day (WSD) celebrates soils and raises awareness of their importance for sustainable agrifood systems, climate action, biodiversity, and human well-being.
The theme for 2025, “Healthy soils for healthy cities”, focuses on the role of soils in cities and the challenges posed by soil sealing and urbanization.
With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, soils are the foundations of sustainable and resilient cities.
World Soil Day 2025 is a call to action! It invites policymakers, scientists, city leaders, civil society, and citizens everywhere to reimagine urban spaces through their soils, ensuring that people and nature can thrive together in healthy green cities.
Draft agenda
Time (CET)Programme
Healthy soils are the foundation of life on Earth. Each year on 5 December, World Soil Day (WSD) celebrates soils and raises awareness of their importance for sustainable agrifood systems, climate action, biodiversity, and human well-being.
The theme for 2025, “Healthy soils for healthy cities”, focuses on the role of soils in cities and the challenges posed by soil sealing and urbanization.
With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, soils are the foundations of sustainable and resilient cities.
World Soil Day 2025 is a call to action! It invites policymakers, scientists, city leaders, civil society, and citizens everywhere to reimagine urban spaces through their soils, ensuring that people and nature can thrive together in healthy green cities.
Draft agenda
Time (CET)Programme
10:00 – 10:05 Welcome and Introduction
Ms Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO
10:05 – 10:35 High-level Opening
Dr. QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO
Ms Anacláudia Marinheiro Centeno Rossbach, Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
10:35 – 10:40 Artistic performance: “Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities”
10:40 – 10:50 Moderator: Mr Lifeng Li, Director, Land and Water Division, FAO
Remarks by H.E. Igor L. Golubovskiy, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to FAO
Video presentation of the laureate of Glinka World Soil Prize 2025
Delivery of the Glinka World Soil Prize 2025 by Dr QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO, and H.E. Igor L. Golubovskiy, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to FAO
Ms Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO
10:05 – 10:35 High-level Opening
Dr. QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO
Ms Anacláudia Marinheiro Centeno Rossbach, Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
10:35 – 10:40 Artistic performance: “Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities”
10:40 – 10:50 Moderator: Mr Lifeng Li, Director, Land and Water Division, FAO
Remarks by H.E. Igor L. Golubovskiy, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to FAO
Video presentation of the laureate of Glinka World Soil Prize 2025
Delivery of the Glinka World Soil Prize 2025 by Dr QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO, and H.E. Igor L. Golubovskiy, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to FAO
10:50 – 10:55 Remarks by the laureate of the Glinka World Soil Prize 2025
10:55 – 11:05 Remarks by Ms Narumol Sanguanvong, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand
Video presenting the winner of the King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award 2025
11:05 – 11:10 Video
World Soil Day 2025 animation: “Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities”
11:10 – 11:15 Announcement of the winners of the contest “Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities”
By Ms. Thorunn Wolfram, Secretary of the Global Soil Partnership, FAO
11:15 – 11:20 Conclusions and closing remarks
Ms Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO
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