News Headline
Leaders Announce Global Effort to Restore 150 Million Hectares of Deforested Land
Source
World Resources Institute (Washington, DC)
Publication Date
2011-09-02
A global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020 is being launched in Bonn, Germany. The announcement comes during the Bonn Challenge Ministerial Roundtable, where a select group of government officials, business leaders, and international forest experts are gathering to catalyze support for global forest and landscape restoration.