Informative speech for tree planting
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Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
Today, ADB joins the global community in commemorating World Environment Day. The theme for this year’s celebration emphasizes our responsibility to make changes in our consumption patterns to ensure a sustainable future.
It is also important to remind ourselves that this year, the global community is set to adopt a set of sustainable development goals to replace the MDGs. Environment features prominently in proposed sustainable development goals. As a development institution, we will have an important task to help our DMCs achieve these sustainable development goals.
In the mid-term review of our Strategy 2020, we sharpened our priorities on environment and climate change to enable us to address existing and emerging challenges in our DMCs.
In 2014, we invested about $7.7 billion or about 57% of our total investments that support environmental sustainability, this includes, investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable urban transport, and biodiversity conservation. A total of $3.2 billion of our investments are for climate change mitigation and adaptation. ADB’s clean energy investments exceed the target of $2 billion. Our sustainable transport initiative and green and livable cities initiatives will significantly contribute to a sustainable future.
While helping our DMCs to move to shift to sustainable growth paths, ADB has been setting an example by doing more and better with fewer natural resources. We have set targets to reduce our consumption of water, electricity, and paper and production of solid wastes at the Headquarters building.
Twenty years ago, then ADB President Mitsuo Sato planted a tree here in our garden to commemorate World Environment Day in 1995. Ten years ago, in 2005, then ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda also planted a tree to contribute to the greening of the ADB Headquarters building. These trees continue to grow and provide shade and oxygen and are reminders of our dependency upon and the benefits derived from a healthy natural environment.
Today, just as my predecessors did in the past, I am honored to plant a tree in our lagoon to signify my support for sustainability. May this tree serve as a reminder of ADB’s commitment to a sustainable future for the Asia-Pacific region and inspire action from staff to protect the environment.
Thank you.
Tree planting:
Plants and trees are considered to be new pets and animals are considered new children.
Trees green things that grow which only gives and gives. They are the only living beings that take very less from earth and give so much. The best quality of trees is they absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. They give rain, prevent soil from going erosion, helps the soil to hold its nutrients, gives shadow to the animals and gives food to the animals. A tree can give everything required for the humans and animals to live but human don't do one thing that tree required to live which is planting and watering it.
All people need to do is leave the amazon trees, water and animals in it alone. Leave all the trees in this world alone. Plant the trees they destroyed to make their home pretty. Follow westernization that doesn't destroy the trees. It should be made a point in the society that no modernization or development is worth cutting even a single tree/plant or killing an animal.
Trees give we only need to plant it for green earth and healthy children.