Essay About Burkina Faso And Billion-Tree Campaign

The One Billion-Tree CampaignEssay Preview: The One Billion-Tree CampaignReport this essayDesertification has become one of the most harmful aspects of environmental degradation known in the world. It has devastating impacts on all aspects of life, including food security, preservation of lakes and rivers, cropping land, and climate. It threatens to create social unrest and conflict, most notably in sub-Saharan Africa, where by 2020, it is predicted to displace an estimated 135 million people from their lands.

The major cause of desertification stems from the destruction of forests, or deforestation. In Burkina Faso, most of its forests have been diminished by human encroachment, including dated mining techniques, slash-and-burn agriculture, and the heavy reliance on tree-cutting for fuel wood to sustain a rapidly growing population. As a result, there have been issues of soil degradation, which combined with the deforestation and recent droughts, has had severe effects on Burkina Fasos main source of business, agriculture.

Burkina Faso strongly supports the One Billion-Tree Campaign. There have been questions to the influence planting a billion trees could have on the environment. Some doubt that the trees can absorb enough CO2 to mitigate global warming. However, while there is no concrete evidence to conclude this argument, Burkina Faso realizes that the campaign also serves as a means of reforestation, awareness, and global unity.

The One Billion-Tree Campaign has surpassed one billion pledges, confirming the general support the program has received. It avoids intergovernmental talks, and instead, offers a more direct and straightforward path towards mitigating deforestation. The campaign is especially revolutionary in the fact that it allows any person from any sector of society to contribute; it is a completely voluntary program.

While there have been remarkable results from UNEPs One Billion-Tree Campaign, there is one problem in its core principle, namely, the availability of the program on a global standpoint. The entire program is web-based, meaning that in order for a person to gain information, pledge, or obtain trees, they would have to have access to a computer. While this might be an easy task for developed countries, most citizens in developing countries do not have this luxury. Therefore, it is literally impossible for most people in Burkina Faso to participate in the program. Of the 1,200,000,000 trees pledged, only 44,250 are to be pledged in Burkina Faso. All of these pledges come from individual people or NGOs. Not only are the general public excluded

The African National Congress has also been providing the program, although it is not yet officially supported within the ANC. For example, in 2015, a program was launched at the World Economic Forum to implement an educational program, focused on agriculture. A group on the organization’s website, A Movement Is Making the Future of Africa One Million-To-One, reported that in their efforts to reach more than 2 billion Africans, “more than 1.5 billion people will become eligible to receive benefits if their first citizenship has been recognized and their second citizenship denied because of poor nutrition or lack of a sufficient place to live”. In a press release, the organization pointed out that the program would “continue to expand the program’s scope and reach to Africa by enabling them to access information, pledge, and gain knowledge. We will further work with the Nigerian government and community to ensure that this and other programs will ultimately result in more Africans meeting their highest potential, a fact that has been proven through countless years of data collection and data analysis conducted by a range of social scientists including The Guardian.”

This week, in an apparent reference to the UNEP’s new initiative for making global access to the African forest, the president of the Democratic People’s Republic of Africa, Ousmani Moleati, addressed the development organization. According to Moleati, President Obama “found that for more than nine years” the African forest is the “largest public resource in the world of nature.” The African forests are a natural ecological resource because of the high biodiversity and high population growth rates within them. In the first two decades of the Clinton and Obama administrations, there has been a great deal of attention paid to forests in Africa but since Obama was still in office, there have been numerous attempts to use them as a source of conservation work. Under President Obama, the goal of “greening” forests has been accomplished but not yet achieved. Under new UN programs and initiatives like the one in Bongo Madawal, which was initiated in 2010 by the United States to deal with deforestation in Africa, the goals are being achieved and the conservation of forests has been restored. Although Obama has consistently touted the benefits of this process and has even called for the creation of an “ambassador race” in the African forest, there is no official support for this or other recent proposals. We hope to address some of these issues in the forthcoming United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage report, which will be released in late 2016.