“Build back better”: US tree-planting push to curb warming, boost jobs
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation American cities and corporate giants on Thursday pledged to plant more than 800 million trees by 2030 as part of a global effort to tackle climate change, improve health and boost job creation in communities reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. More than 20 cities, companies and non-profits announced the creation […]
New platform matchmakes funders, tree planters to protect forests
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation A new online platform aims to connect people who can plant trees with investors with millions of dollars to spend, its backers said, in a bid to stem deforestation worldwide. TerraMatch, launched last week, aims to boost efforts to protect forests and plant trees, critical tactics in the fight against climate […]
Postcards: As a “green stimulus”, Pakistan sets virus-idled to work planting trees
RINA SAEED KHAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Pakistan’s 10 Billion Tree Tsunami program is providing jobs during the coronavirus economic contraction…
India’s tree planting, conservation push sparks land conflicts
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A drive to plant trees and conserve areas for wildlife is triggering conflicts over land in India, with poor villagers and Indigenous people most at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods, researchers have warned. India is aiming to increase its forest area and green cover to a third of […]
Tree planting extends an olive branch across the climate divide
New York CityThomson Reuters Foundation The world’s business and government leaders may have found a way to fight climate change without having to call global warming by its name or agree on what is causing it. Last week, the World Economic Forum – which dedicated its 2020 gathering in Davos, Switzerland, to climate change and […]
Azerbaijan plants 650,000 trees to celebrate poet – but green activists grumble
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Oil-rich Azerbaijan planted more than half a million trees on Friday to celebrate a 14th century poet, an initiative the government said would help tackle climate change but some environmental activists called “a waste of money”. The Azeri ministry of ecology said 650,000 trees were being planted across the country to […]
ESSAY: “GREENWASHING” – CORPORATE TREE PLANTING GENERATES GOODWILL BUT MAY SOMETIMES HARM THE PLANET
In an article first published on The Conversation, BENJAMIN NEIMARK, of Lancaster University in the UK, takes a look at why corporate tree planting schemes could “cause more harm than good”…
POSTCARDS: AS THE DEAD ARE BURIED, TREES RISE IN ZIMBABWE’S CEMETERIES
JEFFREY MOYO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Harare on how cemeteries are helping to address a deforestation crisis…