During the day-long event, the children listened to talks, visited a rhetoric workshop and, as a crowning finale, planted trees as a symbolic and active contribution to climate protection. Back in their classrooms, they reported on their experiences and inspired their classmates to participate in future projects, which were attended by teachers and relatives.
About Plant-for-the-Planet:
The Plant-for-the-Planet Children´s Initiative was founded in January 2007. It has its origin in a school presentation about the climate crisis of the - back then - 9-year-old Felix Finkbeiner. Inspired by Wangari Maathai, who planted 30 million trees in africa, Felix developed at the end of his presentation the vision that children could plant one million trees in each country of the world to create a CO2 balance therewith. During the following years Plant-for-the-Planet developed to a worldwide move: At present approx. 100,000 children in over 100 countries pursue this goal. They understand themselves as an initiative of world citizens which campaign for climate justice in the sense of total reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases and an homogeneous distribution of those emissions among all humans.
Since March 2011 Plant-for-the-Planet has a democratic structure with a Global Board which consists of 14 children from eight nations.
More information: www.plant-for-the-planet.org
