AS A way of taking meaningful action against the climate crisis, Zambia in 2018 launched the Plant A Million (PAM) trees initiative.
The ambitious initiative was aimed at planting two billion trees by 2021 and the plan was in line with the country’s Seventh National Development Plan (2017-2021) which sought to diversify the economy from copper dependency. The initiative targeted young people through schools, colleges and universities and was to be used as a vehicle for mindset change among Zambians so that they could begin to value the importance of planting trees for commercial purposes.