{"id":54609,"date":"2019-08-25T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54609"},"modified":"2019-08-23T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:31:38","slug":"mou-signed-launching-plantation-drive-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mou-signed-launching-plantation-drive-karachi.html","title":{"rendered":"MoU signed for launching plantation drive in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Thar Foundation recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sindh Forest Department to increase the urban forest cover and reduce the frequency of climate change hazards in Karachi, a news source reported. As per the foundation\u2019s officials, the two authorities have agreed to collaborate to plant over 10,000 saplings across the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/thar-foundation-provide-100000-saplings-plantation-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thar Foundation to provide 100,000 saplings for plantation campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) and the Thar Foundation \u2013 the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) front for SECMC \u2013 have together taken the responsibility of providing the saplings to the forest department.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration is part of a larger initiative, titled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/million-tree-project-for-thar-underway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thar Million Tree Programme<\/a>\u2019, helmed by the Thar Foundation. Under this initiative, the foundation hopes to plant one million trees in Thar by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>SECMC Director Site Operations Syed Azhar Murtaza Rizvi said that the foundation had voluntarily adopted the \u2018Sustainable Development Goals Framework\u2019 of the United Nations (UN). He added that these measures would help slow down climate change and create a greener environment.<\/p>\n<p>Rizvi stated that the foundation\u2019s collaboration with Urban Forestry was an extension of SECMC\u2019s commitment to creating additional green public spaces and promoting environment stewardship in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/seed-ball-technology-facilitate-plantation-drive-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seed ball technology to facilitate plantation drive in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SECMC\u2019s had also established Sindh\u2019s largest private sector nursery spanning over 80 acres of land. This nursery has the capacity of nurturing 0.5 million saplings at a time \u2013 contributing saplings of various local plant species. This initiative of SECMC was aimed at cutting down carbon footprint, promoting greener &amp; healthier environment, and combating desertification in Tharparkar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Thar Foundation recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sindh Forest Department to increase the urban forest cover and reduce the frequency of climate change hazards in Karachi, a news source reported. As per the foundation\u2019s officials, the two authorities have agreed to collaborate to plant over 10,000 saplings across the city. Read:\u00a0Thar Foundation to provide 100,000 saplings for plantation campaign Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) and the Thar Foundation \u2013 the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) front for SECMC \u2013 have together taken the responsibility of providing the saplings to the forest department. The collaboration is part of a larger initiative, titled \u2018Thar Million Tree Programme\u2019, helmed by the Thar Foundation. Under this initiative, the foundation hopes to plant one million trees in Thar by the end of 2019. SECMC Director Site Operations Syed Azhar Murtaza Rizvi said that the foundation had voluntarily adopted the \u2018Sustainable Development Goals Framework\u2019 of the United Nations (UN). He added that these measures would help slow down climate change and create a greener environment. Rizvi stated that the foundation\u2019s collaboration with Urban Forestry was an extension of SECMC\u2019s commitment to creating additional green public spaces and promoting environment stewardship&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":35448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12679],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-mou-signed-for-launching-plantation-drive-in-karachi"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MoU signed for launching plantation drive in Karachi - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Thar Foundation recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sindh Forest Department to increase the urban forest cover and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mou-signed-launching-plantation-drive-karachi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MoU signed for launching plantation drive in Karachi - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Thar Foundation recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sindh Forest Department to increase the urban forest cover and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mou-signed-launching-plantation-drive-karachi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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