As the world faces the challenge of slowing down climate change, preserving biodiversity, and supporting the needs of a growing population of over eight billion people, trees are crucial to the solution.

Sea levels are rising and oceans are becoming warmer. Longer, more intense droughts threaten crops, wildlife and freshwater supplies. From polar bears in the Arctic to marine turtles off the coast of Africa, our planet’s diversity of life is at risk from the changing climate.

The level of severity in Pakistan escalated in 2022 due in large part to last year’s floods, which affected 33 million people — roughly one out of every seven people in the country.

Ethiopia is heading toward its sixth consecutive failed rainy season, which could prolong a drought already affecting 24 million people.