Friday, January 19, 2007
U.N. Program to Plant 1 Billion Trees Gets French Backers
The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) has signed on several French companies to its "Plant for the Planet: the Billion Tree Campaign." Groups like the French Ministry of Agriculture, the National Museum of Natural History, and others have agreed to support the plan to plant 1 billion trees by 2008. The program has already received pledges to plant 157 million trees; 5.5 million of them coming from France.
