{"id":9953,"date":"2020-06-11T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","slug":"ethiopia-will-plant-5-billion-trees-this-year-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/11\/ethiopia-will-plant-5-billion-trees-this-year-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Will Plant 5 Billion Trees This Year to Tackle Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ethiopia is working on planting five billion trees this year, part of an ambitious plan to plant 20 billion seedlings by 2024 to help build a green climate resistant economy. The initiative, started by prime minister Abiy Ahmed, follows the Green Legacy Challenge project that claimed to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1679528\/ethiopias-tree-planting-might-not-help-its-climate-change-battle\/\">plant a record 353 million seedlings<\/a>&nbsp;on a single day, and a total of 4 billion last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it comes as Ethiopia faces a ballooning budget deficit and a growing government expenditure with dwindling foreign investment in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new expenditure is budgeted to cost the country over 4 billion Birr, ($117 million) which is believed to be a conservative estimate and is now expected to likely cost twice as much due to cost of plants in urban areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1866532\/ethiopia-to-plant-5-billion-trees-in-2020-to-beat-climate-change\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is working on planting five billion trees this year, part of an ambitious plan to plant 20 billion seedlings by 2024 to help build a green climate resistant economy.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9954,"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-9953","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\/9953","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=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}