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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.

  • Great Green Wall.

  • The answer.

  • Africa's great green Wall.

  • But what exactly is it, aunt?

  • How much progress has been made first?

  • The concept.

  • 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.

  • Good boosters Expedia, Kennametal uh, that gone with River Kisa Companion support HPD objective, unimportant and get the plant didn't put it.

  • Revert uh, continue to develop here That just announced that France, is this a project eureka logic like the project, the acceleration of Civic Lemonis present.

  • 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.

  • Um energy should listen.

  • Million preview.

  • 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.

Yeah, What's five miles long stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea on has now secured over $14 billion of investment.

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