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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a major
worldwide tree planting campaign. Under the Plant for the Planet:
Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and
governments are encouraged to enter tree planting pledges online with the objective of planting at least one billion trees
worldwide during 2007.
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"We have but a short time to avert damaging and economically debilitating climate change. The solutions are numerous and, as many economists say, affordable when compared with the costs of complacency. The goods and services provided by forests are worth billions if not trillions of dollars to the global economy. Forests are natural and economically important ‘sinks’, sequestrating carbon from the atmosphere and locking it away in trunks and branches. Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was. It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act."
Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director
Under the patronage of:
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Prof. Wangari
Maathai,founder of
the Green Belt
Movement and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
“When we plant trees, we plant
the seeds of peace and seeds of
hope.” |
HSH Albert II,
Sovereign Prince
of Monaco
"I believe in the symbolic strength of the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign and I sincerely hope it will meet
our expectations, far beyond the
welfare linked to replanting trees,
to benefit future generations.” |
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Pledged |
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»» Enter your Pledge |
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Planted |
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»» Enter Planted Trees |
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