SHAYDZ OF AUSTRALIA and PLANT FOR THE PLANET - THE UN 12 BILLION TREE CAMPAIGN
see also: www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign
Stop Talking Start Planting Campaign
The oldest living organisms on Earth are trees. Nearly all forms of land-based life depend upon trees in one way or another. Even the way we view the world owes so much to trees. People speak of having roots. Our families are organised into trees and branches. Businesses use seed capital to take root and spread out. Occasionally we go out on a limb, and sometimes, of course, we cannot see the wood for the trees.
It is rare that a simple action can be so infectious and effective, yet the act of planting a tree as part of UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign has catalysed a collective, powerful response among citizens, communities and governments around the world
Children need the support of adults. We want to plant trees together in every country of the world, organise academies worldwide and gain one million Climate Justice Ambassadors. Take care of tomorrow today: if you want to support our initiative with your company and work together with us for the future us children worlwide, there are a number of different options.
Take responsibility as a company and help us children to reach our aims!
The advantages at a glance: Visible commitment and worldwide involvement - Campaignin your regional environment and commit yourself to specific projects in our international network.
Strengthening the team spirit - Incorporate your employees, your business partners and customers as well as their children and make social commitment come alive. Similar to Companies like The Body Shop allow each employee to volunteer for a charity of choice each month for one day and also partake in the Healed World Ally Journey and make a truly significant difference. They each can also become an Ally to someone who is 100% time committed to the Ally Journey Venture and doing a round the world trip for instance, they would love all the encouragement they can recieve.
Increase the positive image on target groups - Make use of a long-term cooperation for your communication.
Your donations are tax-deductible - you get a donation receipt from us in the first quarter of the following year. For donations up to 200 Euro the finance authority accepts the statement, a deposit receipt, a voucher or the like as a validation and you do not need a donation receipt.
What can my Corporation or Company do?
1. Corporate Business Co-operation
Join In on the Healed World Alliance Allies Ventures, Pitch In and assist as an Ally - The Planet needs YOU. Become a truly beneficial presence on the planet.
Become an Ally to a unique person who by partaking in the Healed World Ally Journey would greatly appreciate YOU as an Uplifter, Encourager and General Friend while on their year long Journey. Many young people these days also have inadequate family Love and Support and you can in a way "Fill that Gap".
In a day and age when there is fewer Jobs and our views being that "GLOBAL CHANGE" Endeavours are the most important to ensure the Human Races' Survival and Thrival, our HW Allies will be the heros of the New Mellenium
Gift funds to Healed World Alliance or give away your donation to employees, business partners or customers to participate in Projects. Help our initiative with your expertise - share your expert knowledge or your resources through pro bono benefits and help us to move forwards. Also gift necessary Products, Equipment,
Tools and also Gifts of Vehicles, Caravans and hire of such and equipment.
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We children have pledged the goal to plant one million trees in each country of the world and since 2007, we are taking over the responsibility together.
In 2007, the "Billion Tree Campaign“ of the UNEP, established by Wangari Maathi and Prince Albert II of Monaco, was handed over to us children in December 2011. Since then more than 12 Billion trees were planted worldwide. Now it is the task of the children to supervise the achievement of the goal that children and adults plant 1,000 Billion trees. To show how powerful we are as a global familiy, we have created a Tree Counter. Here you can register how many trees you want to plant and later how many trees you really planted. It is very important that every single tree ist registered, as it is the only way to know how many trees are missing to reach the 1,000 Billion goal! Create your own tree pledge or register planted trees!
Tree-O-Meter
Climate Justice Ambassadors11,359 Climate Justice Ambassadors (23.11.2011)
As Plant-for-the-Planet Climate Justice Ambassadors we are part of a worldwide network. We spread our vision of climate justice and global citizenship to our schools, families and friends. Our common symbol is the planting of trees.
We children inform other children in our Academies about the climate crisis, distribution justice and global citizenship. We empower ourselves to become Climate Justice Ambassadors. Empowered children spread their knowledge to other children.
We show, that everybody can take responsibility and create our future actively - by organizing planting parties, giving lectures and motivate others to join in.
Tasks of an Ambassador
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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE UN BILLION TREE CAMPAIGN.
A CALL TO ACTION
We have but a short time to avert damaging and economically debilitating climate change. We also have all the economic, intellectual and technological know-how to head off this calamity and avoid the disruption and misery that inaction would entail.
The solutions are numerous and, as many economists say, affordable when compared with the costs of complacency. These range from energy saving measures and clean and renewable energy sources, to more efficient transport and better planning and management of our economies. We also know that the way we harvest natural resources has a big part to play. In this respect, the way we utilise and sustainably manage our forests can take a central and pivotal role.
Historically, forests have all too often been viewed simply as abundant sources of timber for activities like construction, ship building or fuel. However, the wider importance of these ecosystems is now increasingly understood. Reports such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment make clear that the goods and services provided by forests are worth billions if not trillions of dollars to the global economy. They range from goods and services linked with water supplies, with stabilization of soils, with purifying the air we breathe, with sustaining biodiversity, and with tourism, to providing genetic resources and natural medicines. Forests are also natural and economically important ‘sinks’, sequestrating carbon from the atmosphere and locking it away in trunks and branches.
Economics cannot capture all the benefits forests provide — from the beauty and spiritual value of the old and cherished village tree, the much-loved and productive community woodland, to the vast monumental and mystical tropical rainforest. But we know these are important too.
Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was. It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act.
Sustainably managing ancient and old-growth forests and avoiding deforestation must be our watchwords. Old growth and pristine forests are the natural world’s equivalents of the human world’s great edifices, sculptures and old masters. However, it is also in our wider interests to restore, reforest and recapture the lost and degraded forest and woodland ecosystems that have, all too often, fallen to short-term and narrow economic interests.
The Kyoto Protocol and its flexible mechanisms, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, provide formal, legally binding ways of achieving some of these wider forest and climate-related goals. UNEP fully supports them. However, voluntary initiatives also offer an important focus for our mutual and even broader environmental, economic and social concerns, alongside a way of ensuring that the coming years achieve a decisive victory in the fight against climate change.
The Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign is an engine for these voluntary expressions of solidarity. It is inclusive and is open to everyone — from governments and businesses, to community groups and individuals. The Billion Tree Campaign is but an acorn, but it can also be a significant and straightforward expression of our common determination to make a tangible difference in developing and developed countries alike.
We have a short time to avert serious climate change. It gives new impetus to the sayings of a Chinese poet. The author lived 2,500 years ago but the sentiments echo down the ages to all of us facing the challenges of today: “If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.”
Climate change confronts us now. There is no longer conjecture or debate around an abstract or hypothetical future. We need action. We need to plant trees and in doing so send a signal to the corridors of political power across the globe that the watching and waiting is over — that countering climate change can take root via one billion small but significant acts in our gardens, parks,countryside and rural areas.
Achim Steiner
Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme
ALSO:
Trees - Our Anchor for life
It is rare that a simple action can be so infectious and effective, yet the act of planting a tree as part of UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign has catalysed a collective, powerful response among citizens, communities and governments around the world.
It is also rare that one action is as keenly relevant to such diverse groups as those who live on mountain tops, in deep valleys, amongst arid landscapes and lush tropics. The campaign has well and truly reached its “tipping point”and become a significant force for positive action, empowerment and change.
Three years strong, the campaign boasts more than 10 billion trees. That´s no small achievement. So what was the campaign´s oxygen and why during this, the UN International Year of Biodiversity, is its continued success so critical?
We face multiple challenges ranging from climate change to repairing the distant but vital ozone layer that filters harmful ultra violet rays. Central among these, is balancing our ever increasing need for food, fuel and building materials while maintaining the planet´s life support systems, including the biological diversity underpinning such systems.
Species are going extinct at perhaps 1,000 times the expected rate, as key habitats such as forests, wetlands and coral reefs are cleared, drained and damaged to make way for human infrastructure.
Rivers and natural water reserves are being lost and fisheries exploited at unsustainable speed. Soils are becoming saline, polluted air is now a cause of illness and premature death and the human population will rise from over six billion today to some nine billion by 2050 - a recipe for disaster if we cannot dramatically reform consumption and production patterns, urgently moving to a low carbon, far more resource efficient Green Economy.
Loss of biodiversity is the world´s invisible crisis. Some people, of course, would say it is not invisible. It is not invisible to the fishers who can no longer find harvests in once abundant seas, nor the indigenous peoples who have lost their forest homes, nor the farmers in developing countries who can find themselves in sometimes deadly conflict as humans and wildlife compete for ever-dwindling space and resources.
The Billion Tree Campaign and forest conservation are key tools in our armoury to help combat cataclysmic loss of biodiversity. As of mid-November 2009, the campaign´s website had registered over 7.4 billion planted trees in 170 countries. Out of the 7.4 billion planted trees, 5.4 billion were registered as indigenous trees.
Tree planting in and of itself become an inter-faith and an inter-generational activity, with trees symbolizing connections between myriad groups. Sometimes, a healthy spirit of competition between groups helped galvanise massive tree plantings, at other times, it was a pure and simple need to do something for the planet, however seemingly, insignificant.
It is no small irony that timber is one of the most important root causes of resource related intra-state armed conflicts. Between 1975 and 2008, 20 conflicts in 18 countries involved oil, crops, timber, gems and minerals. The immense value of trees is both their strength and weakness.
Losing forests clearly undermines food, energy and climate security. Yet saving them by investing US$ 40 - 45 billion per year into managing and creating protected areas of natural habitats could, according to The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity´s (TEEB) latest study, save ecosystem services such as freshwater provision, biodiversity, natural defenses against erosion and flooding worth around US$ 5 trillion per year.
The diversity of life that a tree can support captures the imagination. Â A single tree in the tropical rainforest can house up to 2,000 different species of insects, birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fungi, mosses and plants.
On the other hand, the burning and clearing of tropical forests generates more climate change-generating emissions than the world's entire transport sector. This was recognized at the UN Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen last December, where governments endorsed Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). REDD represents perhaps one of the greatest opportunities for combating climate change, while generating income flows into conservation and employment in natural resource management.
The Billion Tree Campaign is both a practical and an inspirational movement. This year, it will encourage planters to focus on degraded areas in Africa, the tropics, Latin America and Small Island Developing States.
As the famous biologist and conservationist Edward O. Wilson said, “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.”
The Billion Tree Campaign can give us all this and more. Coinciding with the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, we haveaunique opportunity to understand the vital role that biodiversity plays in sustaining life on Earth.
Achim Steiner
UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme
see also: www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign
Stop Talking Start Planting Campaign
The oldest living organisms on Earth are trees. Nearly all forms of land-based life depend upon trees in one way or another. Even the way we view the world owes so much to trees. People speak of having roots. Our families are organised into trees and branches. Businesses use seed capital to take root and spread out. Occasionally we go out on a limb, and sometimes, of course, we cannot see the wood for the trees.
It is rare that a simple action can be so infectious and effective, yet the act of planting a tree as part of UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign has catalysed a collective, powerful response among citizens, communities and governments around the world
Children need the support of adults. We want to plant trees together in every country of the world, organise academies worldwide and gain one million Climate Justice Ambassadors. Take care of tomorrow today: if you want to support our initiative with your company and work together with us for the future us children worlwide, there are a number of different options.
Take responsibility as a company and help us children to reach our aims!
The advantages at a glance: Visible commitment and worldwide involvement - Campaignin your regional environment and commit yourself to specific projects in our international network.
Strengthening the team spirit - Incorporate your employees, your business partners and customers as well as their children and make social commitment come alive. Similar to Companies like The Body Shop allow each employee to volunteer for a charity of choice each month for one day and also partake in the Healed World Ally Journey and make a truly significant difference. They each can also become an Ally to someone who is 100% time committed to the Ally Journey Venture and doing a round the world trip for instance, they would love all the encouragement they can recieve.
Increase the positive image on target groups - Make use of a long-term cooperation for your communication.
Your donations are tax-deductible - you get a donation receipt from us in the first quarter of the following year. For donations up to 200 Euro the finance authority accepts the statement, a deposit receipt, a voucher or the like as a validation and you do not need a donation receipt.
What can my Corporation or Company do?
1. Corporate Business Co-operation
Join In on the Healed World Alliance Allies Ventures, Pitch In and assist as an Ally - The Planet needs YOU. Become a truly beneficial presence on the planet.
Become an Ally to a unique person who by partaking in the Healed World Ally Journey would greatly appreciate YOU as an Uplifter, Encourager and General Friend while on their year long Journey. Many young people these days also have inadequate family Love and Support and you can in a way "Fill that Gap".
In a day and age when there is fewer Jobs and our views being that "GLOBAL CHANGE" Endeavours are the most important to ensure the Human Races' Survival and Thrival, our HW Allies will be the heros of the New Mellenium
Gift funds to Healed World Alliance or give away your donation to employees, business partners or customers to participate in Projects. Help our initiative with your expertise - share your expert knowledge or your resources through pro bono benefits and help us to move forwards. Also gift necessary Products, Equipment,
Tools and also Gifts of Vehicles, Caravans and hire of such and equipment.
- Individual cooperation
Together we work on a concept for your commitment perfectly fitting to your company. Being a New Millenium and due to the current state of our precious Planet, we at Healed World Alliance aim to instill within Corporations, Companies and Individuals that you assist our Ally Partners and the Ventures with a True and Deeper Alturistic Attitude - "Because you Really Care", not because you save on paying Tax and it looks good for your company to support local communities. - Healed World Alliance aim for the entire worlds' able-bodied population to "Get in and get their hands dirty" and "Put as much back in as we Take Out" in other words to Effect as much Planetary Regeneration and Revitatlisaiton as we have destruction and ultilisation to satisfy our unsustainable needs and overt wants., addictions and desires.
- Make Alturistic Use of "Healed World Alliance" for your internal and external communication
Increase your positive image on target groups. We supply you with the Healed World Alliance logo for your activities and/or provide you with pictorial and text material for your public relations. Furthermore we integrate your company in our network for communication. The use of our logo is according to tax law only possible on the base of a licence agreement.
- Make commitment come alive through regional or worldwide effort at activities and tree planting actions
Involve your business partners and customers in activities. Motivate your employees and their children to plant trees theirselves or participate actively in our campaign "Stop talking. Start planting".
Worldwide involvement through support of specific projects
Act as a model for other companies. As a best practice example you show others what you accomplish for your environment and the future of us children. Whether in Switzerland, Brasilia or South Africa you spread with us the message for a more equitable and livable future in the world.
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We children have pledged the goal to plant one million trees in each country of the world and since 2007, we are taking over the responsibility together.
In 2007, the "Billion Tree Campaign“ of the UNEP, established by Wangari Maathi and Prince Albert II of Monaco, was handed over to us children in December 2011. Since then more than 12 Billion trees were planted worldwide. Now it is the task of the children to supervise the achievement of the goal that children and adults plant 1,000 Billion trees. To show how powerful we are as a global familiy, we have created a Tree Counter. Here you can register how many trees you want to plant and later how many trees you really planted. It is very important that every single tree ist registered, as it is the only way to know how many trees are missing to reach the 1,000 Billion goal! Create your own tree pledge or register planted trees!
Tree-O-Meter
- 12 590 855 541 Planted
- 13 687 079 603 Pledged
- 14 000 000 000 Goal
Climate Justice Ambassadors
As Plant-for-the-Planet Climate Justice Ambassadors we are part of a worldwide network. We spread our vision of climate justice and global citizenship to our schools, families and friends. Our common symbol is the planting of trees.
We children inform other children in our Academies about the climate crisis, distribution justice and global citizenship. We empower ourselves to become Climate Justice Ambassadors. Empowered children spread their knowledge to other children.
We show, that everybody can take responsibility and create our future actively - by organizing planting parties, giving lectures and motivate others to join in.
Tasks of an Ambassador
- We discuss the cause of the climate crisis and what we can do about it.
- We train to give lectures to be able to convince others about our ideas and goals.
- We give lectures and inspire other children and adults - at school, during Academies, on company events or in town councils.
- We organize planting parties.
- We create a worldwide network with other children and attract attention on a global scale.
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE UN BILLION TREE CAMPAIGN.
A CALL TO ACTION
We have but a short time to avert damaging and economically debilitating climate change. We also have all the economic, intellectual and technological know-how to head off this calamity and avoid the disruption and misery that inaction would entail.
The solutions are numerous and, as many economists say, affordable when compared with the costs of complacency. These range from energy saving measures and clean and renewable energy sources, to more efficient transport and better planning and management of our economies. We also know that the way we harvest natural resources has a big part to play. In this respect, the way we utilise and sustainably manage our forests can take a central and pivotal role.
Historically, forests have all too often been viewed simply as abundant sources of timber for activities like construction, ship building or fuel. However, the wider importance of these ecosystems is now increasingly understood. Reports such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment make clear that the goods and services provided by forests are worth billions if not trillions of dollars to the global economy. They range from goods and services linked with water supplies, with stabilization of soils, with purifying the air we breathe, with sustaining biodiversity, and with tourism, to providing genetic resources and natural medicines. Forests are also natural and economically important ‘sinks’, sequestrating carbon from the atmosphere and locking it away in trunks and branches.
Economics cannot capture all the benefits forests provide — from the beauty and spiritual value of the old and cherished village tree, the much-loved and productive community woodland, to the vast monumental and mystical tropical rainforest. But we know these are important too.
Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was. It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act.
Sustainably managing ancient and old-growth forests and avoiding deforestation must be our watchwords. Old growth and pristine forests are the natural world’s equivalents of the human world’s great edifices, sculptures and old masters. However, it is also in our wider interests to restore, reforest and recapture the lost and degraded forest and woodland ecosystems that have, all too often, fallen to short-term and narrow economic interests.
The Kyoto Protocol and its flexible mechanisms, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, provide formal, legally binding ways of achieving some of these wider forest and climate-related goals. UNEP fully supports them. However, voluntary initiatives also offer an important focus for our mutual and even broader environmental, economic and social concerns, alongside a way of ensuring that the coming years achieve a decisive victory in the fight against climate change.
The Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign is an engine for these voluntary expressions of solidarity. It is inclusive and is open to everyone — from governments and businesses, to community groups and individuals. The Billion Tree Campaign is but an acorn, but it can also be a significant and straightforward expression of our common determination to make a tangible difference in developing and developed countries alike.
We have a short time to avert serious climate change. It gives new impetus to the sayings of a Chinese poet. The author lived 2,500 years ago but the sentiments echo down the ages to all of us facing the challenges of today: “If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.”
Climate change confronts us now. There is no longer conjecture or debate around an abstract or hypothetical future. We need action. We need to plant trees and in doing so send a signal to the corridors of political power across the globe that the watching and waiting is over — that countering climate change can take root via one billion small but significant acts in our gardens, parks,countryside and rural areas.
Achim Steiner
Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme
ALSO:
Trees - Our Anchor for life
It is rare that a simple action can be so infectious and effective, yet the act of planting a tree as part of UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign has catalysed a collective, powerful response among citizens, communities and governments around the world.
It is also rare that one action is as keenly relevant to such diverse groups as those who live on mountain tops, in deep valleys, amongst arid landscapes and lush tropics. The campaign has well and truly reached its “tipping point”and become a significant force for positive action, empowerment and change.
Three years strong, the campaign boasts more than 10 billion trees. That´s no small achievement. So what was the campaign´s oxygen and why during this, the UN International Year of Biodiversity, is its continued success so critical?
We face multiple challenges ranging from climate change to repairing the distant but vital ozone layer that filters harmful ultra violet rays. Central among these, is balancing our ever increasing need for food, fuel and building materials while maintaining the planet´s life support systems, including the biological diversity underpinning such systems.
Species are going extinct at perhaps 1,000 times the expected rate, as key habitats such as forests, wetlands and coral reefs are cleared, drained and damaged to make way for human infrastructure.
Rivers and natural water reserves are being lost and fisheries exploited at unsustainable speed. Soils are becoming saline, polluted air is now a cause of illness and premature death and the human population will rise from over six billion today to some nine billion by 2050 - a recipe for disaster if we cannot dramatically reform consumption and production patterns, urgently moving to a low carbon, far more resource efficient Green Economy.
Loss of biodiversity is the world´s invisible crisis. Some people, of course, would say it is not invisible. It is not invisible to the fishers who can no longer find harvests in once abundant seas, nor the indigenous peoples who have lost their forest homes, nor the farmers in developing countries who can find themselves in sometimes deadly conflict as humans and wildlife compete for ever-dwindling space and resources.
The Billion Tree Campaign and forest conservation are key tools in our armoury to help combat cataclysmic loss of biodiversity. As of mid-November 2009, the campaign´s website had registered over 7.4 billion planted trees in 170 countries. Out of the 7.4 billion planted trees, 5.4 billion were registered as indigenous trees.
Tree planting in and of itself become an inter-faith and an inter-generational activity, with trees symbolizing connections between myriad groups. Sometimes, a healthy spirit of competition between groups helped galvanise massive tree plantings, at other times, it was a pure and simple need to do something for the planet, however seemingly, insignificant.
It is no small irony that timber is one of the most important root causes of resource related intra-state armed conflicts. Between 1975 and 2008, 20 conflicts in 18 countries involved oil, crops, timber, gems and minerals. The immense value of trees is both their strength and weakness.
Losing forests clearly undermines food, energy and climate security. Yet saving them by investing US$ 40 - 45 billion per year into managing and creating protected areas of natural habitats could, according to The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity´s (TEEB) latest study, save ecosystem services such as freshwater provision, biodiversity, natural defenses against erosion and flooding worth around US$ 5 trillion per year.
The diversity of life that a tree can support captures the imagination. Â A single tree in the tropical rainforest can house up to 2,000 different species of insects, birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fungi, mosses and plants.
On the other hand, the burning and clearing of tropical forests generates more climate change-generating emissions than the world's entire transport sector. This was recognized at the UN Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen last December, where governments endorsed Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). REDD represents perhaps one of the greatest opportunities for combating climate change, while generating income flows into conservation and employment in natural resource management.
The Billion Tree Campaign is both a practical and an inspirational movement. This year, it will encourage planters to focus on degraded areas in Africa, the tropics, Latin America and Small Island Developing States.
As the famous biologist and conservationist Edward O. Wilson said, “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.”
The Billion Tree Campaign can give us all this and more. Coinciding with the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, we haveaunique opportunity to understand the vital role that biodiversity plays in sustaining life on Earth.
Achim Steiner
UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme