Until the year 2025, 10 million trees will be planted in the Czech Republic under the auspices of the voluntary initiative “Planting the Future”. The trees will be planted in the species’ habitats, agricultural landscape or along road networks as a visible measure for the adaptation of the environment to climate change, increasing the resilience of cities and landscape as well as serving as a mitigation measure (carbon sink). The initiative will be open to a broad spectrum of interested stakeholders (local governments, NGOs, businesses, individuals) and will act as a platform for offsets.

The initiative is organized by the Ministry of the Environment in collaboration with the Nadace Partnerstvi institution. The ministry will prepare a methodological toolkit and it will be responsible for eliminating legislative barriers which might occur. Nadace Partnerstvi will be responsible for the coordination of partners, the creation of a web platform, and public relations and financial/fiscal management. A coordination committee consisting of all project partners will be established and arrange meetings thrice a year (approximately). Besides the committee, working groups focused on legislation, financial sources and methodology will work in a continuous manner. The project evaluation will take into account the number of planted trees (whether the target was met) and the number of active members engaged in the initiative as well as potential changes in legislation (barriers eliminated).

organizations, entities, stakeholder networks involved in this initiative: Nadace Partnerstvi, Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic, National Network of Local Action Groups in the Czech Republic, CI2, o.p.s., Svaz zakládání a údržby zeleně, z.s., Arboeko s.r.o,