{"id":14667,"date":"2022-07-30T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/unops-stresses-need-for-expanding-ethiopias-green-legacy-initiative-across-africa"},"modified":"2022-07-30T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:36:38","slug":"unops-stresses-need-for-expanding-ethiopias-green-legacy-initiative-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/unops-stresses-need-for-expanding-ethiopias-green-legacy-initiative-across-africa","title":{"rendered":"UNOPS Stresses Need for Expanding Ethiopia\u2019s Green Legacy Initiative across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ethiopia. <\/strong><\/span>United Nation Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Ethiopia Country Director, Worknesh Mekonnen, underscored the need to exert efforts to expand the Green Legacy Initiative across Africa.<\/p>\n

It is to be recalledthat Ethiopia had launched the Green Legacy Initiative in 2019 to addressvarious environmental challenges by promoting a green culture. The plan was toplant 20 billion trees across the country over four years.<\/p>\n

The nation has alreadyplanted 18 billion trees with the participation of 20 million citizens over thelast three years.<\/p>\n

In an exclusiveinterview with ENA, UNOPS Ethiopia Country Director, Worknesh Mekonnen said \u201cweshould transfer this kind of positive culture across Africa. In Addition, weneed to do more in terms of building that culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worknesh stated thatUNOPS had been actively participating in the previous tree planting campaignsnoting the plan to continue planting trees for this year\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year, we planttrees as UNOPS. Last year we planted around Entoto and before last year we haveplanted in Adama. And this year we also have a similar plan to plant trees. Weare just choosing the right place where we need to plant. We try to put ourmark in terms of the green legacy and we are very much support the initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Country Directorappreciated the Green Legacy Initiative being carried out in Ethiopia pledgingto provide support to its accomplishment.<\/p>\n

The Ethiopian GreenLegacy Initiative is one of the best mechanisms to curbing environmentalchallenges caused due to climate change that has been affecting the globalcommunity including Ethiopia, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a publicsecret in terms of the climate\u2019s impact. Ethiopia is not any unique it\u2019s aglobal challenge that we\u2019re facing globally in all aspects. the heat wave nowwe\u2019re going through for example in Europe and other places whatever the summeris going on and you can see the increasing floods in every place that there israin including countries like Ethiopia. So I think, to be honest, it\u2019s one ofthe best initiative that we\u2019re very much supportive\u201d.<\/p>\n

She further expressed hope that the whole of Africa will really take it seriously to averting the challenges of climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate is real and it\u2019s with us and it\u2019s about time for us to wake up and do something about it,\u201d the Country Director urged.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Ethiopia. United Nation Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Ethiopia Country Director, Worknesh Mekonnen, underscored the need to exert efforts to expand the Green Legacy Initiative across Africa. It is to be recalledthat Ethiopia had launched the Green Legacy Initiative in 2019 to addressvarious environmental challenges by promoting a green culture. 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