The Global Forest Project

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Planting Youth’s Future

In September 2019 at the United Nations, TreesCO2 issued its call to action to plant 1,000 trees for each of the world’s youth aged 15-24, exceeding 1 trillion trees. We call this the Global Forest Project (“GFP”). The GFP is a strength-based collaborative solution to climate change. Planting 1,000 trees for each of the world’s 1.2 billion youth ensures that the UN and World Economic Forum supported trillion tree goal is met, in so doing planting youth’s future. The GFP is a TreesCO2 proposal in collaboration with the UN Nature-Based Solutions Workstream.

 
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Pattison Outdoor sponsored the display of TreesCO2’s call to action on a downtown Toronto billboard and digital billboards across the TTC, yielding 14.6 million views.

TreesCO2 was founded to inspire the world to plant trees through action and education. Our launch goal was to plant 1,000 trees and to learn what is involved in growing a forest. This endeavour gave us a BIG idea. What if there were 1,000 trees planted for each of the world’s youth?

The GFP is inspired by youth’s example of unprecedented collaboration driven by the digital era. We collaborate according to our strengths and interests, sharing, posting, messaging and tweeting to create global awareness and impact. Our strength-based collaboration skills are the world’s best chance to win the race against climate change. The GFP invites all countries, governments, organizations, and individuals to contribute according to their strengths such as forest hosting capacity, financing or human talent including labour, project management or research.

TreesCO2, on behalf of all youth issues a call to global leaders to follow youth’s lead and collaborate across geographic, economic, political, religious and language boundaries.

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United Nations, Climate Action Summit Weekend Meetings, New York, September 2019

See TreesCO2’s Global Forest Project Proposal at the United Nations Environment Website, under Nature-Based Solutions Proposal #85: https://www.unenvironment.org/nbs-contributions-platform

Trees and Ravines Round Table, January 2020, hosted by

The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Click here to find out how you or your organization can join the Global Forest Project!