{"id":6914,"date":"2019-12-02T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T08:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"making-tree-planting-work-the-equity-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/02\/making-tree-planting-work-the-equity-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Tree Planting Work The Equity Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extreme\nweather that has caught the attention of the world, including droughts, forest\nfires and floods, has underscored the threat that climate change poses to our\nsurvival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scale\nof the problem means that addressing it requires the concerted efforts of\ngovernments, private sector players, NGOs and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research\nindicates that tree planting is one of the most effective and cheapest ways of\naddressing the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trees are\nknown to trap atmospheric CO2 and can mitigate the challenges of global warming\nand climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is noteworthy that the Kenya government has committed to increasing the country\u2019s forest cover from the current 7.5 per cent of the landmass, against a target of 10 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has recently embarked on a national campaign that aims to plant 1.8 billion trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Making-tree-planting-work-the-Equity-way\/440808-5368652-mcel0jz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Extreme weather that has caught the attention of the world, including droughts, forest fires and floods, has underscored the threat that climate change poses to our survival.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}