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A 13 year old boy looking to plant a billion trees in the world

Felix Finkbeiner
A scarce 13 years, the German boy Felix Finkbeiner has undertaken what may be the most ambitious project of his life: to make the organization has created, "Plant for the Planet" (Plant for the planet), plant a billion trees around the world, which absorb 10 billion tons of CO2 annually. Felix

The idea arose when, at age 9, his teacher instructed him to conduct a study on climate change. Researching on the subject, found that Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan-born woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, planted 30 million trees over 3 decades, as he told the BBC. Finkbeiner wanted to go further and drew up the challenge of giving birth to a global initiative to direct actions for the planet.

In four years, the organization has planted more than a million trees only in Germany and has managed to engage and involve in the project to children and young people from over 90 countries to join his environmental crusade.

"We will not solve the problem by changing lamps. We need big changes, "said Felix the BBC, while noting that to make the Earth's temperature rise by no more than two degrees Celsius, each of the world's people should give a maximum of 1.5 tonnes of CO2 a year.