Tree Scheme To Take 26 Years

It will take a generation to see any climate benefit from cabinet’s proposal to plant two billion trees, the Department of Natural Resources said yesterday. The 2019 election promise announced by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna will cost $5.9 billion, by Budget Office estimate: “I can’t give an exact date on when the two billion trees will be planted exactly.”

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