Planting trees to mitigate climate change: Peru to plant 40 million in 2009
January 9, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
In an attempt to mitigate climate change, the Ministry of Agriculture has launched a nationwide tree-planting project with the astounding goal to plant 40 million trees by Feb. 20 to capture more than 570,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, El Comercio reported Friday. “This project was programmed many months ago,” said architect Rodolfo Beltran, [...]
