A billion trees?A worldwide tree planting campaign is underway with a goal of planting a billion trees during 2007. The campaign, called Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, was undertaken by the United Nations Environment Program; 2004 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. Laureate Wangari Maathai (see Earthkeepers, Spring 2006); and HSH HSH abbr. Her (or His) Serene Highness Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco The Reigning Prince or Princess of Monaco is the sovereign monarch and head of state of the Principality of Monaco. All Princes or Princesses thus far have taken the name of the House of Grimaldi, but have belonged to various other houses in male line; the current Prince is Albert . The campaign encourages people worldwide to pledge an amount of trees to plant in 2007. Speaking during a UN meeting on climate change in Nairobi, Maathai told Reuters News Service, "Anybody can dig a hole, anybody can put a tree in that hole and water it. And everybody can make sure that the tree they plant survives." Achim Steiner, the head of UNEP UNEP United Nations Environment Program(me) UNEP Unbundled Network Element Platform UNEP University of Northeastern Philippines , called tree planting a "win, win, win, win, win proposition, and there are few of those in our world today." Planting a billion trees, he said, would soak up 250 million tons of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. that is helping to warm the atmosphere. To learn more about the campaign or make a pledge, visit http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/index.asp. |
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