China News Agency, Davos, May 25 (Reporter De Yongjian) After China announced that it will strive to plant 70 billion trees within 10 years, the World Economic Forum expressed its appreciation on the 25th and said that it will join hands with China Green Foundation to help achieve this goal. .
The World Economic Forum issued an announcement on the same day to make the above statement.
On May 24, China's special envoy for climate change, Xie Zhenhua, announced at the 2022 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Davos Forum) that China will respond to the World Economic Forum's "Global Planting of Trillions of Trees" leader initiative and strive to achieve a goal within 10 years. Plant 70 billion trees to strengthen forest carbon sinks and strengthen the conservation of existing forest resources.
The announcement quoted the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Schwab, as saying, thanking China for its efforts to support the World Economic Forum's "Global Planting Trillion Trees" leader initiative, "We highly appreciate China's nature-oriented approach." solutions to implement relevant international commitments such as the Paris Agreement and the Biodiversity Goals.”
According to the announcement, the World Economic Forum will cooperate with the China Green Foundation to actively respond through the "Global Leaders Initiative for Planting a Trillion Trees - China Action" to help China achieve the goal of "planting 70 billion trees" by 2030.
In 2020, in response to the "United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration" initiative, the World Economic Forum launched the "Global Planting Trillion Trees" Leaders Initiative, which aims to promote the Keep the momentum going with nature-based solutions.
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