Planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas.
As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New research estimates that a worldwide planting programme could remove just under one-third of all the emissions from human activities that remain in the atmosphere today, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”.
It was against this background that PDG Ken Mugisha found it necessary to come up with this project. The project focuses on tree growing alongside tangible benefits provided through clean energy technologies (institutional stoves) that redefine biomass energy consumption trends.
It is believed that every person can plant a tree, and trees, as well as inspire more people to do the same. Their target is to plant and nurture (grow) three million trees in the short term (12 months), 20 million trees over 5 years, and make tree growing a proud habit within Uganda and District 9213. Their idea will therefore be a catalyst for Uganda’s committed green growth and to some way to meeting the global Sustainable Development Goals
