The federal government’s promise to plant 2 billion trees by 2030 is unlikely to succeed, says Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco, noting that the initiative is less than 3 percent complete after its first two years in action.
DeMarco’s office tabled several reports on April 20 addressing a range of environmental issues, one of which was the “2 Billion Trees Commitment” (2BT) introduced in 2021 to give “financial support to organizations to plant trees over 10 years.”
DeMarco’s office wrote in a report on “Forests and Climate Change” that the tree-planting initiative will not succeed unless it sees “significant changes,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….