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More than 1 billion trees planted in 2007
The world has surpassed a UN goal of planting 1 billion trees in 2007 to help slow climate change, led by huge forestry projects in Ethiopia and Mexico, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on the day before. The global tree-planting drive, inspired by Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, is meant to counter deforestation from logging and the burning of forests to create farmland.
?An initiative to catalyze the pledging and the planting of one billion trees has achieved and indeed surpassed its mark,? UNEP head Achim Steiner said in a statement on plantings by governments, companies and individuals. ?It is a further sign of the breathtaking momentum witnessed this year on the challenge for this generation ? climate change.? Trees soak up carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for stoking global warming, as they grow.
UNEP said Ethiopia appeared to be the runaway leader with 700 million trees planted in a national reforestation drive.
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