The GGW: An African Sustainable Development Powerhouse that is Raising the Economic Hopes of Millions

International Banker, June 2024

The Great Green Wall Aims to Regreen Africa's Sahel Region

Business Insider, April 2024

Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference

The Guardian, March 2024

Great Green Wall of Africa Foundation Partners with Global Investment Firms to Launch Sustainability Fund at COP28

Fox40, December 2023

Climate Change: FG restates commitment to Great Green Wall initiative

News Agency of Nigeria, November 2023

The private backers of the Great Green Wall

France24, July 2023

Can the Great Green Wall save the Sahel?

African Business, March 2023

Why women are key to ensuring the Great Green Wall flourishes

World Economic Forum, March 2023

Warding Off Desertification in Africa

Spiegel International, August 2021

IOC reveals details of its “Olympic Forest” project

International Olympic Committee (IOC), June 2021

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today the details of its project to plant the “Olympic Forest” in Mali and Senegal, an element of the IOC’s climate-positive strategy.

The project is a contribution to the Great Green Wall initiative, which restores degraded landscapes across Africa’s Sahel region. It will involve planting around 355,000 native trees across approximately 90 villages in Mali and Senegal – host of the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 – and will cover a combined area of around 2,120 hectares.

We're a long way from ending deforestation, but we can still stop it

World Economic Forum, December 2020

In 2014, governments, companies, NGOs and Indigenous groups committed to 10 goals to protect trees, under the New York Declaration on Forests. The goals intended to halve deforestation by 2020, and stop it by 2030.

But assessments have concluded we're actually further from stopping deforestation now than we were six years ago.

Despite the challenges, the goals can still be achieved with the right measures.