When Felix Finkbeiner was a nine year old, fourth grader living near Munich, Germany, he did a school report about trees and climate change. In doing that report, he came to the conclusion that if kids could plant one million trees in every country in the world, that would go a long way toward combating greenhouse gasses. Four years later, this remarkable young man was addressing the United Nations General Assembly . What started with a lonely crab apple tree he planted on his school’s grounds has led to a worldwide movement and an organization called Plant for the Planet ). Felix is now twenty years old and a student at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

“Globally, we have the potential of planting up to another one trillion trees. And if we manage to plant these trees, they would capture about a quarter of all human-made greenhouse gasses.” Felix Finkbeiner, Founder of Plant for the Planet