UN tree-planting campaign reaches 4 billion mark

10 June 2009 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today that its campaign to plant 7 billion trees worldwide – in a bid to pressure nations to "seal the deal" on an ambitious new climate change pact this December – has passed the halfway mark.

More than 4 billion saplings have been planted as part of UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign, which has mobilized thousands of people in 166 countries to put more trees on the planet by the end of 2009.

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