Question: Recently which of the following organization has launched the One Trillion Trees Initiative to grow, restore and conserve trees across the world by 2030?
(a) World Economic Forum( WEF)
(b) WWF
(c) UNICEF
(d) UNDP
Answer: (A)
Related facts:
- The World Economic Forum has launched ‘One Trillion Trees Initiative’ to grow, restore and conserve 1 trillion trees across the world by 2030.
- The global initiative is aimed at restoring biodiversity and help fight climate change.
- This initiative will provide the much-needed progress against climate, biodiversity and SGD goals.
- This reduction can be about one-third of the emissions required to be cut by 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement targets.
- The one trillion trees (1t.org) project is also aimed at uniting governments, non-governmental organisations, businesses and individuals in mass-scale nature restoration.
- US President Donald Trump announced that the United States will also join the one trillion trees initiative.
Inspiration to launch Initiative:
- The WEF launched the initiative after gaining inspiration from a presentation by Swiss ecologist Thomas Crowther at the organization’s meeting in 2019.
- Crowther and his team had calculated in July 2019 that planting over 1 trillion additional trees will help cool the earth and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to where they stood a century back.