The Global Marshall Plan :One Million Flyers in Germany for the Billion Tree Campaign

In Germany, the Global Marshall Plan Initiative joins the Billion Tree Campaign in support of environmental protection and regeneration. The Global Marshall Plan Initiative includes the following five core goals:

• implementation of the globally agreed upon UN Millennium Goals by 2015
• raising of an additional 100 billion US$ a year required to achieve the Millennium Goals, to enhance worldwide development
• fair and competitively neutral raising of these necessary resources, also by burdening global transactions
• gradually establish a worldwide Eco-Social Market Economy with an improved global policy framework through the interlinking of established rules and agreed upon standards for economic, environmental and social issues (WTO, ILO and UNEP standards)
• new forms of appropriation of funds directed to the grassroots level, while at the same time fighting corruption.

Students sent one million flyers to 7,000 schools in Germany and launched their website . Every concerned pupil can dedicate a pledge to plant trees to a certain school and a certain classroom. The official launch of the campaign took place on 28 March 2007 at the Munich International School in Starnberg. More>>