Suara Indonesia News - Billion Tree Campaign patron, His Serene Highness Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, has a keen interest in the world’s environment and in issues related to sustainable development. In his inaugural speech of 12 July 2005, he listed environment as a top governmental priority, urging citizens’ responsibility in respecting, nurturing and protecting the environment. As a prominent environment advocate, HSH Albert II undertook an exploratory expedition to Spitsbergen in the Arctic to draw attention to global warming and help to better understand the realities of climate change and pollution and their consequences on animal and plant life. On 27 February 2006, Monaco ratified the Kyoto Protocol under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, committing to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases. Monaco has also started to organize carbon-neutral events. HSH Prince Albert II has launched initiatives to combat air and marine pollution, protect biodiversity and save marine life, and has established the Albert II Foundation to provide a permanent source of dynamic and novel action for environmental protection.
It is with great pleasure that I have accepted to be a Patron for the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign launched by UNEP. I am particularly honoured to be associated with the Founder, Mrs. Wangari Maathai, whose involvement, in the process of reforestation, has been and continues to be, inspirational. I wish to congratulate Mrs. Maathai and send her my best wishes.
I would like to share with you a fond memory of precisely 30 years ago, when young Monegasque students began the 1st plantation of trees on the mountainside surrounding the Principality. Today, these students, now adults, return with their own children to this area to enjoy the beauty and solitude of the very trees they planted. To plant a tree for future generations is a simple gesture, yet a strong symbol, of sustainable development.
The aim of the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign is to create an unprecedented mobilization in favour of the environment. This will encourage and coordinate the initiatives of planting local species, initiated by governments, NGOs, communities and even children.
We are all aware of the catastrophic consequences of deforestation on climate, biodiversity and water. An example, 32 million acres of forest, equivalent to the size of England, are destroyed each year, for short-term profits thus depriving the planet of a vital lung, which is necessary for the climatic balance. It is also necessary for the conservation of biodiversity, the preservation of the soils, the fight against erosion and the preservation of water reserves. The plantation and natural expansion of the forest represents less than 14 million acres. We are facing an emergency and we must invert this trend.
Tree plantation, and globally, reforestation play a key role in reducing pressure on the primary forest and preserving the original habitat, in limiting the effects of erosion, in absorbing CO² and thus reducing the global warming process. And finally, preserving biodiversity and the natural habitat of numerous vegetal and animal species. The tropical forest provides the habitat of more than half of all known vegetal and animal species.
The objectives pursued by the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign are in concordance with my own beliefs and with the initiatives I have recently taken by creating the “Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation” which is dedicated to environment and sustainable development. The Foundation’s aim is to become an initiative and project multiplier in the areas of climate change, biodiversity and water.
For numerous years the Government of Monaco has consciously been replanting operations, at the local and community level as well as at the international level. The Government has signed a new three-year convention for the replanting and reforestation in Lebanon. In this regard, 865 acres have been replanted and by 2008 we are considering to replant an additional 500 acres. The Government of Monaco has also initiated a cooperation program with Chile to replant 200 acres of trees.In conclusion, I believe in the symbolic strength of the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign and I sincerely hope it will meet our expectations, far beyond the welfare linked to replanting trees, to benefit future generations
It is with great pleasure that I have accepted to be a Patron for the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign launched by UNEP. I am particularly honoured to be associated with the Founder, Mrs. Wangari Maathai, whose involvement, in the process of reforestation, has been and continues to be, inspirational. I wish to congratulate Mrs. Maathai and send her my best wishes.
I would like to share with you a fond memory of precisely 30 years ago, when young Monegasque students began the 1st plantation of trees on the mountainside surrounding the Principality. Today, these students, now adults, return with their own children to this area to enjoy the beauty and solitude of the very trees they planted. To plant a tree for future generations is a simple gesture, yet a strong symbol, of sustainable development.
The aim of the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign is to create an unprecedented mobilization in favour of the environment. This will encourage and coordinate the initiatives of planting local species, initiated by governments, NGOs, communities and even children.
We are all aware of the catastrophic consequences of deforestation on climate, biodiversity and water. An example, 32 million acres of forest, equivalent to the size of England, are destroyed each year, for short-term profits thus depriving the planet of a vital lung, which is necessary for the climatic balance. It is also necessary for the conservation of biodiversity, the preservation of the soils, the fight against erosion and the preservation of water reserves. The plantation and natural expansion of the forest represents less than 14 million acres. We are facing an emergency and we must invert this trend.
Tree plantation, and globally, reforestation play a key role in reducing pressure on the primary forest and preserving the original habitat, in limiting the effects of erosion, in absorbing CO² and thus reducing the global warming process. And finally, preserving biodiversity and the natural habitat of numerous vegetal and animal species. The tropical forest provides the habitat of more than half of all known vegetal and animal species.
The objectives pursued by the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign are in concordance with my own beliefs and with the initiatives I have recently taken by creating the “Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation” which is dedicated to environment and sustainable development. The Foundation’s aim is to become an initiative and project multiplier in the areas of climate change, biodiversity and water.
For numerous years the Government of Monaco has consciously been replanting operations, at the local and community level as well as at the international level. The Government has signed a new three-year convention for the replanting and reforestation in Lebanon. In this regard, 865 acres have been replanted and by 2008 we are considering to replant an additional 500 acres. The Government of Monaco has also initiated a cooperation program with Chile to replant 200 acres of trees.In conclusion, I believe in the symbolic strength of the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign and I sincerely hope it will meet our expectations, far beyond the welfare linked to replanting trees, to benefit future generations
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