Establishing the One Trillion Trees Interagency Council
Establishes Federal Council to Advance One Trillion Trees Goal
What it does
Agencies must include tree-growing, restoration, and conservation activities in their strategic plans and provide regular progress reports to the Council and the Office of Management and Budget.
Real-world impact
- Creates a federal council coordinating tree planting, restoration, and conservation.
- Requires agencies to include tree work in planning and report progress.
- Council ends December 31, 2030, setting a timebound federal role.
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Summary
This order creates a United States One Trillion Trees Interagency Council to coordinate federal actions that grow, restore, and conserve trees as part of a global effort to plant and protect one trillion trees by 2030.
The council brings together cabinet-level officials and other leaders and requires agencies to include tree-related work in their planning and to give regular progress reports to the council and the Office of Management and Budget.
The council will track federal tree activities, identify legal or funding barriers, recommend fixes, and inform state, local, and tribal officials; it ends on December 31, 2030.
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