Name: What is Africa's Great Green Wall?
Uploaded: 2021-01-18T19:00:15.000Z
Duration: 2 min 38 s
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Yeah, What's five miles long stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea on has now secured over $14 billion of investment.

The aim of the Great Green Wall, is to halt desertification by growing the largest living structure on earth.

The planting of a strip of trees and other vegetation stretching from Senegal to Djibouti is intended to trap the sands of the Sahara and protect surrounding land, something that environmental experts say would restore 100 million hectares of land, provide food security, create jobs on offer young people an alternative to migration.

Speaking at a January summit in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that pledges had exceeded the initial target of $10 billion with development banks and states now pledging over $14 billion over the next four years to protect Africa's biodiversity.

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For some, the acceleration seems long overdue.

Since the birth of the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2000 and seven, progress has been arguably slow, with only 4% completed.

Speaking at the same event, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mohammed, urged for more to be done.

Some of the city initiative Larry Physical Copy, SNP, Selma cut million Decter later on today.

This is the extra boost could push the initiative further towards its goal of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land and creating 10 million green jobs by 2030.

 Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on the planet, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef. 

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