United Nations Billion Tree Campaign
The Billion Tree Campaign, spearheaded by UNEP, was unveiled in 2006 as one response to the threat but also the opportunities of global warming, as well as to the wider sustainability challenges from water supply to biodiversity loss.
The campaign, which was placed under the patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, had an initial target of registering, through its dedicated website, one billion trees in 2007.
In 2008, the campaign's objective was raised to seven billion trees – a target to be met by the climate change conference that was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. By September 2009, the seven billion planted trees mark had been surpassed.
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