Billion tree campaign grows past 3 billion mark, says UN agency

Summary:
Billion trees campaign was launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in 2006. An effort to fight climate change through reforestation, seeded at the grassroots level, has now blossomed into a woodland of over 3 billion trees, with the confirmation that over 300 million were planted in Turkey in 2008. , the Billion Tree Campaign, which is under the patronage of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Kenyan Green Belt Movement founder Professor Wangari Maathai and Prince Albert II of Monaco, has already set a new target of 7 billion trees to be planted by the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in December 2009. Trees also important for products and urban populations, including food, fibre, medicines , energy ,water and biodiversity conservation. Now, Turkey attains second position in the list of top 10 countries in the Campaign’s roll of honour. The leading country remains Ethiopia with 725 million trees planted. Mexico, Kenya and Cuba are the top five in the sylvan effort.Romanian Government and other partners, has confirmed that it has planted over 11 million trees through the national tree-planting movement ‘Millions of People, Millions of Trees.’
In total, 3,071,704,993 trees have been planted around the world. So far, another 1,578,796,459 trees have been pledged and have yet to be planted.The agency is further inviting all individuals, communities, businesses, civil society organizations and Governments to join the global tree-planting initiative by registering tree-planting commitments on the campaign’s website.

Personal respond:
In my opinion the campaign is very good idea because Global warming is the most important problem to the world. Plant more trees is the best way to stop Global warming. If everybody in the world plant only one tree one person and do not cut down the trees anymore the world will be green and cool.Then we must have to support the campaign.

Sorce:
http://www.environment-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspxcid=21694&codi=48023&idproducttype=8

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