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  1. www.weforum.org › agenda › 2022The US is planting a billion trees to fight climate change

    Aug 30, 2022 · Listen to the article. Tree planting is the ‘most powerful solution in the fight against climate change’, an ETH Zürich scientist says. The US is aiming to plant 1 billion trees over the next 10 years to help tackle global warming. Other projects of significant scale include 1T.org, a scheme to plant 1 trillion trees worldwide by 2030.

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  3. www.wri.org › insights › how-and-where-plant-60Planting 60 Billion Trees in the U.S. - World Resources Institute

    Feb 12, 2020 · The United States may not be able to plant 60 billion trees overnight, but it can start now. With a public investment of $4-4.5 billion per year — comparable to what the federal government currently spends on fossil fuel subsidies, but nearly 100 times more than what the Trillion Trees Act would provide — the country could complete this ...

  4. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › us-will-plantU.S. Will Plant One Billion Trees to Combat Climate Change

    Jul 29, 2022 · Wildfires have already burned 5.6 million acres in the United States this year. Pexels Wildfires are the main driver of forest destruction, responsible for about 80 percent of reforestation as of ...

  5. www.weforum.org › agenda › 2021How many trees do we need to plant to stop climate change ...

    Aug 25, 2021 · The average person in the United States produces a whopping 15.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year compared with 1.9 tons for an average person in India. This means that if each person in the U.S. planted one tree per year it would offset only about 3% of the carbon dioxide they produce each year, after all 20 trees had matured.

  6. www.usda.gov › media › press-releasesBiden-Harris Administration Announces Plans for ... - USDA

    Jul 25, 2022 · WASHINGTON, July 25, 2022 — Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a strategy for how the Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will address a reforestation backlog of four million acres on national forests and plant more than one billion trees over the next decade.

  7. www.americanforests.org › article › planting-thePlanting the path to 1 trillion trees - American Forests

    Photo: REI. THE GOAL IS AMBITIOUS: conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees worldwide by 2030. As the first chapter of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 1t.org platform, the United States is stepping up to the challenge. Just one year after launching, more than 70 U.S.-based corporations, governments and nonprofit organizations have joined ...

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  9. www.fs.usda.gov › planting-trees-tomorrows-climatePlanting trees for tomorrow's climate | US Forest Service

    May 30, 2023 · To address this need, the 2021 Repairing Existing Public Land by Adding Necessary Trees Act, better known as the REPLANT Act, includes a call for the Forest Service to plant 1.2 billion trees over the next decade and provides funding for this work. The Forest Service will use experimental plots to provide land managers with the latest research ...