{"id":2405,"date":"2026-08-18T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:24:46","slug":"green-legacy-diplomacy-how-ethiopia-is-using-mass-tree-planting-to-reshape-its-global-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/green-legacy-diplomacy-how-ethiopia-is-using-mass-tree-planting-to-reshape-its-global-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Green Legacy diplomacy\u2019: How Ethiopia is using mass tree-planting to reshape its global standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><em>Addis Ababa (AMECO)<\/em>&#8211;<strong> Ethiopia is seeking to redefine its international image through an ambitious environmental campaign, leveraging mass public mobilization and reforestation to transition from a historic narrative of drought and famine toward proactive climate leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The country\u2019s flagship Green Legacy Initiative achieved global prominence following a national drive in the 2018 Ethiopian calendar aimed at planting 800 million tree saplings in a single day. State and international media outlets, including China\u2019s CGTN and Xinhua, reported extensive public mobilization across the country, highlighting the initiative&#8217;s focus on restoring degraded landscapes, expanding national forest cover, tackling climate change, and safeguarding biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">The initiative has been framed by climate advocates and foreign commentators as a dual environmental and economic strategy. Coverage by outlets including TV BRICS highlighted the project&#8217;s potential to drive sustainable investment, enhance long-term food security, improve agricultural yield, and build local community resilience against environmental shocks. Pan-African platform All Africa and regional media across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Horn of Africa similarly noted the scale of citizen participation as a major milestone in public environmental action.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Addis Ababa has\u00a0 treated environmental stewardship as a core pillar of its soft-power strategy\u2014coined locally as &#8220;Green Legacy diplomacy&#8221;. The strategy mirrors previous large-scale, self-funded infrastructure projects, such as the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), designed to demonstrate national self-reliance and alter external perceptions of the country&#8217;s development capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa (AMECO)&#8211; Ethiopia is seeking to redefine its international image through an ambitious environmental campaign, leveraging mass public mobilization and reforestation to transition from a historic narrative of drought and famine toward proactive climate leadership. The country\u2019s flagship Green Legacy Initiative achieved global prominence following a national drive in the 2018 Ethiopian calendar aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1459,78,404,400,901,529,405,927,84,53],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}