Lapa Rios Joins the United Nations Billion Dollar Tree Planting Campaign

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a major worldwide tree planting campaign. Under the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments are encouraged to enter tree planting pledges online with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007.

"We have but a short time to avert damaging and economically debilitating climate change. The solutions are numerous and, as many economists say, affordable when compared with the costs of complacency. The goods and services provided by forests are worth billions if not trillions of dollars to the global economy. Forests are natural and economically important ‘sinks’, sequestrating carbon from the atmosphere and locking it away in trunks and branches. Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was. It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act." Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director

In order to participate in this worthy cause, Lapa Rios has pledged to plant 1,000 trees by 2008. Guests, employees and children of various schools in the Osa Peninsula will be asked to participate. For more information about the United Nations Billion Tree Planting Campaign, visit http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/asp or write to us at sustainable@laparios.com