The Green Elephant - 3. Planting a Trillion Trees

The Green Elephant

— Planting a Trillion Trees —

The “Great Green Wall” Didn’t Stop Desertification, but it Evolved Into Something That MightThe multibillion-dollar effort to plant a 4,000-mile-long wall of trees hit some snags along the way, but there's still hope

Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a RecordThe initiative is part of a campaign by the prime minister to plant four billion trees in the country before the fall to combat deforestation and global warming.

New Filipino Law Requires Every Student To Plant 10 Trees If They Want To GraduateThe Philippines, a tropical island nation in the Pacific, will now require by law all graduating students from elementary school to college plant 10 trees each before they can graduate.

Ecosia - the search engine that plants treesEcosia uses the ad revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed the most. By searching with Ecosia, you’re not only reforesting our planet, but you’re also empowering the communities around our planting projects to build a better future for themselves. Give it a try!

Plant a Tree Whenever Trump Says Something Misinformed About the Environment With TreespondIf you’re frustrated by President Trump’s misinformed thoughts on climate change and other environmental issues, now you can do something to help the environment every time he makes one using the site Treespond.

Dramatic contrasts on the border with the Haitian side totally deforested. The reason explained in the Podcast.

Would a large-scale tree restoration effort stop climate change? | EFI blog

Planting trees is good. Eliminating deforestation is better.The UN report says we just have to stop cutting them down.

There's so much CO2 in atmosphere that planting trees won't save us

Yes, we can reforest on a massive scale - but it's no substitute for slashing emissionsTree restoration is being touted as the best climate change solution, in a new study, but its results should be interpreted with caution

There's so much CO2 in the atmosphere that planting trees can no longer save usHumans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of CO2 into the Earth's atmosphere annually. We would have to cover the entire US with trees to capture 10%.

Trying to Plant a Trillion Trees Won't Solve AnythingWe’re not going to stop climate change with just seedlings and fancy agriculture. We also need to reduce emissions.

IPCC report: Planting trees isn’t enough to save us from the climate crisis

Alas, planting a trillion trees won't save the planet from climate change on its ownWe still have to reduce our carbon emissions.

How many trees are cut down every year?

— Poverty and Tree Planting —

Reforestation to Help Communities | Earth Day NetworkMost of the world’s forests are located in some of the poorest areas on the earth. Of the 1.3 billion people worldwide who live in extreme poverty on less than $1.25 a day, forests directly contribute to 90 percent of their livelihoods.

The Need for Trees | Plant With Purpose - Why reforestation is urgent

Reforestation in Africa can overcome poverty - LifeGateNew study underlines the advantages of large-scale reforestation in Africa to fight economic instability and climate change.

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