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World Oceans Day 2020
Every year World Ocean Day is celebrated on 8th June. For 2020 World Oceans Day is growing the global movement to call on world leaders to protect 30% of our blue planet by 2030.
The Government of Canada proposed setting a World Ocean Day during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The UN officially recognized 8 June as World Oceans Day in December 2008. The Day is coordinated by The Ocean Project, a not-for-profit international community foundation.
History
The government of Canada had proposed the concept of World Ocean Day, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Officially World Ocean Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2008 to be celebrated worldwide annually on 8 June to resolve the problems of oceans and also to save ocean water. By the collaboration of The Ocean Project and the World Ocean Network, it has been started celebrating on the international level.
On 8 June 2009, the first time it has been celebrated after the official declaration by the United Nations General Assembly in the resolution 63/111, paragraph 171.
