Since the start of the Clean and Green initiative, about 400 000 trees have been planted across Barbados and environmental officials are pressing to ensure more than twice that number is eventually planted, National Tree Planting Coordinator Darwin Philips said on Friday.Speaking at the launch of the latest Clean and Green exercise in Pavilion Terrace, Deacons Farm, St Michael, he said that despite some setbacks, the island remained on track to plant one million trees, as Government seeks to maintain green spaces across the country to help mitigate the effects of climate change, “We have thus far planted just around 400 000 trees across this island . . . . We have a mandate that this country has signed on to with the Paris Agreement . . . which states [focus on] reducing or mitigating the climate effects with respect to global warming. We are on our way in doing that, in getting our one million trees. It may be slow, but we will get there,” Philips said.
