Twitter for Trees! UNEP to Plant 100,000 Trees for 100,000 Followers
The United Nations Environment Programme will be planting 100,000 trees for 100,000 Twitter followers in honor of World Environment Day, June 5th 2009. The effort supports the Billion Trees Campaign’s goal to plant a total of seven billion trees – one for every person on the planet – by year’s end.
Add your voice and twitter loudly! Follow www.twitter.com/UNEPandYou, retweet the message and help get as many people involved as possible.
From UNEP:
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The day’s agenda is to:
1. Give a human face to environmental issues;
2. Empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development;
3. Promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues;
4. Advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.The theme for WED 2009 is ‘Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change’. It reflects the urgency for nations to agree on a new deal at the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen some 180 days later in the year, and the links with overcoming poverty and improved management of forests.
Your planet needs you! Find more ways to get involved at the UNEP World Environment Day website.
Link UNEP
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