At the age of Nine, Felix Finkbeiber from Germany had to give a presentation about the Climate Crisis to his classmates in the school at Bavaria, Germany. He learnt from an online article about an African, Nobel Prize winner for planting 30 million trees in Africa over 30 years.
Felix together with is classmates who wanted to do something similar planted the number one tree in the school. The parents of the children helped with some money and today the tree stands tall. This news was soon spread through news papers, radio that resulted in other schools joining in. The children even created website and founded the Plant-for the- Planet.
He is very confident that as a school kid he will be able to impress adults to see his point of view. He impressed upon everyone that the trees break down the CO2 convert it in to oxygen and store carbon which is essential for better environment. This started the Plant-for the–Planet’s ambitious target of planting one trillion trees, all over the world by 2020. That is 150 trees for every single person on the planet.
The Plant-for the –Planet has managed to plant millions of sapling since taking over the United Nations Environment Program’s Billion Tree Campaign in 2011 spearheaded by a boy who is 17 years old now. He questioned the automobile giants Volkswagen on the consequences of cars consuming petrol and the emission when he was 15 in the year 2013 at their management meeting.
There are 12,00,00 children around the world actively supporting Plant – for the –Planet and 30,000 have been trained to be Ambassadors of Climate Justice imparting knowledge to many other. This movement is there in many countries all over the world with more and more participating every day. Backed up by his father Felix has his future plans cutout as he feels that the world is facing two key crises – Climate and Justice.
