Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched today the second phase of the Green Legacy Initiative.
” ‘Let’s plant our future today’..this is the theme for the beginning of the second phase of the Green Legacy Initiative which we launch today following a successful first phase in which we planted 25 billion seedlings,” Abiy twitted.
In the second phase, Ethiopia will plant another 25 billion seedlings, he stated.
Abiy said “Green Legacy is a legacy for generations to come. It’s our local approach to tackling climate change and environmental degradation.”
It is one of our means to creating job opportunities and also one means of enabling food security through planting edible seedlings, he elaborated.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency