RURAL WATCH AFRICA INITIATIVE TO PLANT 50,000 TREES IN ITS KNOW BETTER, ACT BETTER CLIMATE ACTION ADVOCACY

Unarguably, we’re in the midst of an environmental emergency. Human - induced climate change has reached a crisis point. As summers and winters keep getting warmer, average wildlife populations have decreased by 60 percent in just over 40 years.

To keep the global temperature rise in this century well below two degrees Celsius above pre - industrial levels;and to achieve the UN ( recommended) ideal  1.5 degrees Celsius . We must take deliberate steps towards climate change mitigation and adaptation .

According to a World Bank Stat., in every 1000 pop,an average estimated births of about 256 births are given per,minute, globally. So I'm thinking what would be the global impact on the  environment when  256 symbolic trees are planted per minute.

The  Rural Watch Africa Initiative target to raise 59,000 seedlings to plant in its 1st phase of #KnowBetterActBetter campaign,  ambitious #climateAction  advocacy to instill the right knowledge and climate change consciousness in parents; and also encourage them to plant trees- symbolic trees at each given birth, to further accelerate countries NDCs towards carbon emissions reduction.

 Drought, desertification and land degradation - DDLD  are all linked to the climate change impacts.

The lives,livelihoods, health,ecosystems, societies ,economies,infrastructure and services ;all being affected  due to climate change that affect the  vulnerability of an exposed system.

 So we must plant trees,we must work with rural communities who are susceptible to climate change crisis and lack capacity to cope and adapt. We must build strength for resilience; and capacity to adapt to climate change!

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