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Trees are indicators of
a community's ecological
health. We are
surrounded by efficient
air cleaning
machines-trees. Trees
remove many pollutants
from the atmosphere,
including nitrogen
dioxide (NO2), sulfur
dioxide (SO2), ozone
(O3), carbon monoxide
(CO), and particulate
matter of ten microns or
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Consciously or unconsciously, all of us
have been using our Earth’s resources to
an extent that today we have become the
main exploiters of the Earth’s eco
system. Development has a role, a
positive one too, but we have lost the
energy of our planet through
deforestation, mining, burning fossil
fuels and so on. This fact was
understood
by Dr Jannie Tay twelve years ago. She
started the EnergyGreen
movement which
works towards reenergizing the planet by
reforestation and
Tissue Culture
plantation for faster growing cultivars. |
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It is a proven fact that about 25 to 30
percent – 1.6 billion tonnes – of the
greenhouse gases
released into the atmosphere each year is due to
deforestation. This will result an
estimated 87 to 130 billion tonnes of
carbon emissions by 2100. This fact
simply does not deter Dr Jannie Tay. She
has already planted 1.2 million trees
across Asia and is accelerating her
process with
relentless determination to grow one
billion trees. |
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Dr Jannie Tay believes that trees are
indispensable for not only our
grandchildren and the generations
thereafter but also for us today. She
lives the fact that reducing
deforestation rates by 50 percent over
the next century will cut down an average of
about half a billion metric tons of
carbon emission every year. This is
enough to account for as much as 12% of
the total reductions required to meet
the IPCC target
of 450 parts per million of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere by the year
2100. |
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She smiles with confidence. She is
already a forerunner in this fight
against Global Warming through
sustainable reforestation and believes
that we will combat it successfully. |
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