Climate Projects

Action against Climate Change

Twenty years ago there was a lively global debate about whether or not the planet’s climate was changing and the impact of human activity on those atmospheric changes. It is less than a year ago that some politicians were dismissing climate change as a ‘hoax’, and...

Heart 4 Trees

Welcome to ESRAG’s ‘Heart4Trees’ programme. This is not a single project, but rather a cluster of many projects with the unifying theme of trees. Some projects are small with work being done by a few individuals: others are large with hundreds of participants from...

SGG Rotary Tree Project

Sustainable Global Gardens [SGG] has been promoting tree-planting in East Africa for several years. Most of the trees planted so far have been planted on small-scale farms and have been directly useful to the farmer. Such trees include both fruits [e.g. mango,...

SOIL IMPROVEMENT

A quick examination of this ESRAG GBI Chapter website will establish that within RGBI there are scores of environmental projects with thousands of rotarian active participants working in a great variety of causes.  There are climate mitigation, tree, flora &...
Seedballs in Kenya

Seedballs in Kenya

Seedballs present a simple but potentially very effective method of tree-planting and rewilding.  Four Rotary clubs in D1260, Barton le Clay, Brookman’s Park, Baldock and  Luton Someries are collaborating with 3 Kenyan clubs, Bungoma, Kakamega and Voi, as well as two...

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Mangrove Restoration

Mangrove Restoration

Mangrove restoration is one of the most effective ways of rapid climate change mitigation.  This is partly because much of the carbon found in such ecosystems is locked into the submarine sediments on which mangroves grow.  For this reason it has been estimated that...

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