Well, here's an end of year good news story (and my word, do we need more of them!) ...
In Uttar Pradesh, India, activists have planted almost 50 million trees in just 24 hours! We thought this was some sort of crazed exaggeration when we first read it, but no — it happened on July 11 and took 800,000 people. It was part of a pledge the country made at the 2015 climate change summit in Paris to increase its forest cover by 235m acres by 2030.
The Indian government has put aside £5bn to plant trees all over India to combat air pollution.
For full story, go here.
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