FAO and partners launched a Great Green Wall for Cities Initiative, under which the agency will support three cities in each of 30 countries across Africa and Asia to plant 500,000 hectares of new urban forests and restore or maintain 300,000 hectares of existing natural forests. Through the Trees in Cities Challenge, the UNECE called on mayors to make tree planting pledges. The Mayors of Tirana (Albania), Victoria (Canada), Bonn (Germany) and Helsingborg (Sweden) announced their intentions to join the Challenge.

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