U.N. wins pledges to plant a billion trees


by Daniel Wallis

NAIROBI, May 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations has received pledges to plant more than a billion trees in a drive to help fight climate change and poverty, it said on Tuesday.
Launched in November by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya at a major U.N. climate meeting in Kenya, the "Billion Tree" campaign aims to roll back deforestation that is a top contributor to carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
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