Programme
Tree planting event
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has initiated a worldwide tree-planting campaign. Under the title of "Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign", private individuals, municipalities, businesses and industrial companies, local citizens' organisations and national governments are being encouraged to plant a total of one thousand million trees in 2007.
The campaign's figureheads are Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, and Prince Albert II of Monaco. The German company Bayer is supporting this unique, world-embracing campaign and is donating 100,000 trees in Nairobi, Kenya, where they will be planted at the head offices of its partner, UNEP.
The campaign's figureheads are Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, and Prince Albert II of Monaco. The German company Bayer is supporting this unique, world-embracing campaign and is donating 100,000 trees in Nairobi, Kenya, where they will be planted at the head offices of its partner, UNEP.
external link: "When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope." Professor Wangari Maathai launched her part of the campaign with this introduction. Planting trees, however, is not merely intended to have the symbolic meaning of providing life and a future referred to by Wangari Maathai: in many parts of the world, reforestation is an essential activity in order to counteract the encroachment of deserts, to secure the quality of the soil and to guarantee more balanced CO2 levels. All of these topics are currently high on the world agenda in view of the challenges we face caused by shifts in climatic conditions.
During the 2007 TUNZA International Youth Conference in Germany, every participant will plant a tree in Leverkusen on August 30, 2007 as part of a massive joint event, which itself will be part of the worldwide campaign. Further information is available at:
http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/
During the 2007 TUNZA International Youth Conference in Germany, every participant will plant a tree in Leverkusen on August 30, 2007 as part of a massive joint event, which itself will be part of the worldwide campaign. Further information is available at:
http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/