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Oslo - A campaign to plant trees worldwide, Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and to slow climate change. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), an organiser...
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‘Billion Tree Campaign’ blossoms to seven times its size, UN agency says
A grassroots campaign to plant trees around the globe has announced that it is raising its target from 1 billion trees to 7 billion trees, the United Nations announced today. The campaign, which is under the patronage of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Kenyan Green Belt Movement founder Professor...
Billion Tree Campaign blossoms to seven times its size, UN agency says
United Nations Billion Tree Campaign blossoms to seven times its size, UN agency says Primary school pupils planting trees at a Wilderness Education Centre in Kenya Primary school pupils planting trees at a Wilderness Education Centre in Kenya 13 May 2008 - A grassroots campaign to plant trees...
2 billion trees planted in UN campaign
More than 2 billion trees were planted around the world as part of the UN's campaign to combat climate change, the world body's environment program (UNEP) said. The Nairobi-based agency said the tree planting campaign, inspired by Kenyan nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai, will help mitigate...
'Billion Tree Campaign' Blossoms to Seven Times Its Size, UN Agency Says
A grassroots campaign to plant trees around the globe has announced that it is raising its target from 1 billion trees to 7 billion trees, the United Nations announced today. The campaign, which is under the patronage of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Kenyan Green Belt Movement founder Professor...
Country Emerges Fourth in Tree Planting Drive
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Abyssinia Lati Kenya has emerged fourth in the world in the Billion Tree Campaign that was launched two years ago, after planting over 120 million trees. With the view that seven billion trees will be able to off-set the carbon emissions of the world's third biggest...
Kenya: Country Emerges Fourth in Tree Planting Drive
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Abyssinia Lati Kenya has emerged fourth in the world in the Billion Tree Campaign that was launched two years ago, after planting over 120 million trees. With the view that seven billion trees will be able to off-set the carbon emissions of the world's third biggest...
UN tree planting plan gets big response, aims for 7 billion trees
New York - Enthusiastic response to an international tree- planting plan begun in 2006 prompted the UN Development Programme on Tuesday to set a new target of 7 billion trees planted by 2009. The programme had already exceeded its initial target of 1...
2 billion trees planted in 18 months
A campaign to plant one billion trees has planted more than 2 billion trees in just 18 months and now aims for seven billion, according to the UN Environment Programme, one of the backers of the initiative. The effort, launched in 2006, is an effort to address a number of environmental challenges...
World tree planting drive sets goal of 7 billion
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change. The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), an...
World tree planting drive sets goal of 7 billion
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 13 (Reuters) - A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change. The U.N. Environment Programme...
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