Starting this March, Freight Brokers has started a new initiative: every month the courier brokers will plant 100 trees in the Great Green Wall in the name of one of our customers. That means by the end of 2022, the company will have planted 1,000 trees in the name of 10 different members of the Freight Brokers family.
This initiative will be running alongside the company's 150 per cent offsetting and will be in addition to their goal of being 250 per cent climate positive by 2025.
The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement with an epic ambition to grow a 7,000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa.
A decade in and roughly 15 per cent underway, the initiative is already bringing life back to Africa’s degraded landscapes at an unprecedented scale, providing food security, jobs and a reason to stay for the millions who live along its path.
The wall promises to be a compelling solution to the many urgent threats not only facing the African continent but the global community as a whole – notably climate change, drought, famine, conflict and migration.
Once complete, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on the planet, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
Running from Djibouti to Senegal, The Great Green Wall is 7,000km long and 16km deep – longer than the distance between London and New York and wider than the distance between London and Windsor. The Great Green Wall will creates a barrier against climate change running across the Sahel region, forming a transitional zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south.
In areas of high implementation, the project has shown worthy results. Although only 15 per cent complete, the wall promises vast improvement to the struggling communities living in the Sahel. According to the UN, countries such as Ethiopia, where Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has made the crisis of land loss a top national priority, have restored more than 15 million hectares of land since 2007.
Other countries such as Nigeria and Senegal, report similar stories. Senegal has planted 12 million drought-resistant trees in the past decade while Nigeria boasts the restoration of five million hectares of land. Due to ample funding and the involvement of local governments and communities, these countries produced strong results.
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