With the focus firmly on climate change Warsaw
City Hall is doing its bit to encourage climate and environmental awareness in
the city. Today more than 10,000 trees were planted by a group of highly motivated
people, who strongly care about the environment and the effects that climate
change is having on it.
“We are planning to plant as many trees
as there are delegates present at the UNFCCC COP19, so we should be planting
around 10,000 trees today,” said Marcin Wroblewski from the Infrastructure
Department of Warsaw City Hall.
The purpose of this initiative is to
offset the carbon footprint of the delegates travelling from all over the world
to participate in the climate summit, and together with many other events
organized by Warsaw City Hall, its aim is to stimulate climate and
environmental awareness among citizens.
Taking part in the tree planting today were
many environmental Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), together with school
and university students, as well as diplomatic representatives. Delegates participating
in the COP were also invited to join.
“Just like any other climate effort we
do, we want it to be done jointly” said Marcin Wroblewski.
This is only one of the actions being
performed by Warsaw City Hall during the COP. They have many other events in
store for the following weeks such as the Climate Picnic, the Tree Day and Warsaw
Recycling Day. All initiatives have been ongoing since 2007.
Many other special one-off events are also
taking place this week in Warsaw: the Green exhibition at the Palace of Culture and Science, where
modern and pro-environmental technologies and solutions are on display; also the
Warsaw Dialogue meeting which brings together city mayors of local governments and NGOs.
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