Posted AT 12:50 PM EDT on 13/05/08
Seeing the trees for a forest
OSLO — A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP), an organizer of the tree drive – begun in late 2006 with an initial goal of a billion by the end of 2007 – said governments, companies and individuals had already pushed the total above 2 billion.
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