JdV revives ‘1 Billion Trees’ movement
WITH El Niño and other climate change phenomena affecting and threatening the country, 4th District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. is reviving his One Billion Trees Movement, which he co-founded with Justice Amado Valdez and seven other members of civil society about seven years ago.
“The trees absorb the carbon dioxide emissions and the carbon dioxide emissions when not absorbed, they go to the sky and create global warming,” said De Venecia who is renewing the tree-planting project with his son Joey III, a senatorial candidate.
De Venecia said he also introduced a global counterpart to the project, dubbed ‘The One Trillion Trees’, during a meeting he presided over in Kazakhstan in August last year.
De Venecia is calling on banks to study the project for possible loan extensions. He said “trees become bankable like extending a 10-year loan that is sure of repayment.”#
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