global action for trees

People are campaigning for climate change all over the world
Tottenham Trees
  • Tottenham Trees
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2022
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2021
    • Special trees in Tottenham >
      • Bruce Castle Oak >
        • Arboricultural survey
        • Reminiscences of the Bruce Castle Oak
        • Calling Tree >
          • Calling Tree: gallery
      • Mulberry tree
      • Seven Sisters
    • Trees in Tottenham (Galleries) >
      • Tottenham trees (A-D common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (E-K common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (L-R common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (S-Z common name)
    • Trees in Art from Tottenham
    • Trees in Words from Tottenham >
      • Epping
      • It's a Word Thing!
      • Message on leaves
      • Ode from the Oak
      • Of this tree
      • The Elder
    • Tottenham parks >
      • St Ann's Redevelopment
    • Tottenham Tree Trails
    • Who we are >
      • Postcards and Bags
  • Charter for Trees
    • Charter history
    • Charter Principles
    • Independent Panel on Forestry
  • About Trees
    • Latest news on Trees 2021 >
      • Tree articles 2020
      • Tree articles 2019
      • Tree articles 2018
      • Tree articles 2017
      • Tree articles 2016
      • Tree articles 2015
    • Threats to our trees
    • Tree Identification
    • Tree Quizzes >
      • Celebrating Trees Quiz 2019 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees 2019
      • Celebrating Trees 2018 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees
      • Lazy Sunday Tree Quiz >
        • Answers: Lazy Sunday
    • Global Tree Calendar
  • Urban Trees
    • Growing trees from seed
    • iTree surveying
    • Street Trees for Living
    • Tree care
    • Tree packs for free
    • Tree planting
    • Trees in the Townscape
  • Inspirations
    • Wangari Maathai >
      • Green Belt Movement
      • Institute and Foundation
      • First Seven Trees
      • Remembering Wangari
      • Kenya
    • Felix Finkbeiner
    • Chico Mendes
    • Chipko Movement
    • Plant for the Planet >
      • 3 Point Plan
    • Inspiring stories from around the world
  • Tree Events
    • Tree Charter Day 2019 >
      • Legacy Oak Ale
    • Urban Tree Festival 2019
    • Wassail 2019
    • Tree Charter Day 2018
    • Tree Charter Day 2017
    • 800 year Charter anniversary
    • Poetry Sunday @ Bruce Castle
    • Poetry @ The Room
    • Calling Tree: Tottenham
    • London National Park City 2018
    • London Tree Week 2017
    • London Tree Week 2016
    • Other Tottenham tree events
  • Green Spaces
    • Other Haringey Green Spaces
    • London Friends of Green Spaces
    • London National Park City
    • Parks cafe trail
    • The Conservation Volunteers
    • Future Forest

Plant-for-the-Planet: an introduction

Are you interested in how the Children´s Initiative Plant-for-the-Planet was founded and what the vision of thousands of children is?  Watch this video to find the answer.
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Felix with Harrison Ford, one of the many Plant for the Planet supporters

The Kenyan environmental activist, Wangari Maathai, was the inspiration for the Plant-for-the-Planet campaign.  The tree planting campaign was started by nine year old Felix Finkbeiner in Germany in 2007 after he had read about Wangari and the Green Belt Movement she had established in Kenya.  The UN Billion Tree Campaign, also inspired by Wangari Maathai, was handed over by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to Plant for the Planet in 2011.

Plant-for-the-Planet’s 3-Point Plan to save our future:

  •  Plant 1,000 billion trees by 2020
  •  Leave fossil fuels in the ground (CO2-free by 2050)
  •  Combat poverty with climate justice
Click on the link to find out more about the Plant-for-the-Planet 3-Point Plan

Billion Tree Campaign

The campaign supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and inspired by Wangari Maathai, encourages people around the globe to make a tree planting pledge online with the collective goal of planting at least one billion trees worldwide each year.
During the first five years of the campaign, 12,585,293,312 trees were planted and registered on the Billion Tree Campaign website.

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More than 12 billion trees have been planted by people from all walks of life - schoolchildren to presidents - testament to a growing global movement for sustainability. As we look to the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development and beyond, we will need just this kind of commitment if we are to guarantee that our planet can continue to provide the foundation we need to reduce poverty and improve security and opportunity for all
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, 2011

Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign

The Billion Tree Campaign was handed over to the Plant for the Planet Foundation 7 December 2011. 
The handover ceremony was held during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban, South Africa.

"We children are now keeping the official tree counter of the Billion Tree Campaign and will work together with governments, companies and the public so that the campaign continues to prosper. We take over this task with the utmost commitment and we will do everything to ensure Wangari Maathai's legacy further branches out." 
Felix Finkbeiner    
                                   Find out more
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Wangari and Felix
Photo: Huang Xiangyang/China Daily

More from Plant for the Planet


Nine-year-old boy plants seed that yields 3 trillion trees

This headline from an article in NASA Global Climate Change in January 2016 referred to Felix Finkbeiner:
           A 9-year-old's homework assignment has led to the world's
          most comprehensive tree-counting project, which in turn
          stands to increase the value of upcoming missions from
          NASA and other space agencies...

         Read the article here

Mapping tree density at a global scale

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A Plant-for-the-Planet initiated study has found that 9.5 billion trees are lost each year due to deforestation. This is despite the efforts of the Billion Tree Campaign.  

The study published in Nature in September 2015 also estimates that there are 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, about 7.5 times more than previously estimated. But the total number of trees has plummeted by 45.8% since humans first began transforming the global landscape.
Download the pdf here

At the World Climate Change Conference 2015

Plant for the Planet Foundation members spoke at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris in December 2015.  As countries sign up to new tree and forest preservation figures, the target for the Billion Tree Campaign becomes a Trillion Trees!

Change Chocolate at COP21

Plant for the Planet gave away bars of Change Chocolate, as one of the 'climate friendly' products at the conference. Change Chocolate was designed to help cocoa farmers and offset the CO2 emissions produced by manufacturing chocolates. Income from the sale of the chocolate is used to give cocoa farmers fair wages and for the planting of trees. The chocolate tagline: A sweet invitation to support Climate Neutral Now and the biggest afforestation project ever.
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Contact us at: tottenhamtrees@gmail.com
In Tottenham seven trees were planted in a ring over 400 years ago for reasons lost in time; the Seven Sisters area and the underground station are named after them. The seven trees have been replanted a number of times, always by seven sisters. 

The Tottenham Trees logo, shown on the right, is a silhouette of the Bruce Castle Oak with the logo of the Charter for Trees, Woods and People launched in November 2017, on the 800th anniversary of the Royal Charter of the Forest.

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  • Tottenham Trees
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2022
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2021
    • Special trees in Tottenham >
      • Bruce Castle Oak >
        • Arboricultural survey
        • Reminiscences of the Bruce Castle Oak
        • Calling Tree >
          • Calling Tree: gallery
      • Mulberry tree
      • Seven Sisters
    • Trees in Tottenham (Galleries) >
      • Tottenham trees (A-D common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (E-K common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (L-R common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (S-Z common name)
    • Trees in Art from Tottenham
    • Trees in Words from Tottenham >
      • Epping
      • It's a Word Thing!
      • Message on leaves
      • Ode from the Oak
      • Of this tree
      • The Elder
    • Tottenham parks >
      • St Ann's Redevelopment
    • Tottenham Tree Trails
    • Who we are >
      • Postcards and Bags
  • Charter for Trees
    • Charter history
    • Charter Principles
    • Independent Panel on Forestry
  • About Trees
    • Latest news on Trees 2021 >
      • Tree articles 2020
      • Tree articles 2019
      • Tree articles 2018
      • Tree articles 2017
      • Tree articles 2016
      • Tree articles 2015
    • Threats to our trees
    • Tree Identification
    • Tree Quizzes >
      • Celebrating Trees Quiz 2019 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees 2019
      • Celebrating Trees 2018 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees
      • Lazy Sunday Tree Quiz >
        • Answers: Lazy Sunday
    • Global Tree Calendar
  • Urban Trees
    • Growing trees from seed
    • iTree surveying
    • Street Trees for Living
    • Tree care
    • Tree packs for free
    • Tree planting
    • Trees in the Townscape
  • Inspirations
    • Wangari Maathai >
      • Green Belt Movement
      • Institute and Foundation
      • First Seven Trees
      • Remembering Wangari
      • Kenya
    • Felix Finkbeiner
    • Chico Mendes
    • Chipko Movement
    • Plant for the Planet >
      • 3 Point Plan
    • Inspiring stories from around the world
  • Tree Events
    • Tree Charter Day 2019 >
      • Legacy Oak Ale
    • Urban Tree Festival 2019
    • Wassail 2019
    • Tree Charter Day 2018
    • Tree Charter Day 2017
    • 800 year Charter anniversary
    • Poetry Sunday @ Bruce Castle
    • Poetry @ The Room
    • Calling Tree: Tottenham
    • London National Park City 2018
    • London Tree Week 2017
    • London Tree Week 2016
    • Other Tottenham tree events
  • Green Spaces
    • Other Haringey Green Spaces
    • London Friends of Green Spaces
    • London National Park City
    • Parks cafe trail
    • The Conservation Volunteers
    • Future Forest