UN conference to hear about News of the World tree-planting push

Seeds for Schools campaign aims to get schools in the UK to plant 1 million trees
Chris Tryhorn
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 September 2009 11.18 BST
The News of the World is to address United Nations delegates about its environmental campaign Seeds for Schools.
Paul Nicholas, the paper's deputy managing editor, will tell a UN conference in Switzerland about the initiative, launched in partnership with the Forestry Commission.
Seeds for Schools, part of the News of the World's Go Green and Save campaign, aims to get the UK's schools to plant 1 million trees.
More than 12 million seeds of alder, silver birch and Scots pine have been sent to over 31,000 primary and secondary schools, along with teachers' notes and a climate change DVD, the News of the World said.
The paper has also contributed to a Seeds for Schools website providing information about forestry and ecology.
This initiative comes as the News of the World's parent company, News Corporation, takes a keener interest in environmental issues under James Murdoch, its chairman and chief executive in Europe and Asia.
Nicholas will speak to the Forest Communicators Network of the UN's Economic Commission for Europe in Lyss, Switzerland on 29 September.
"We are proud and delighted to spread the word about Seeds for Schools," said Nicholas. "If other countries take up our example and plant millions of trees themselves, that can only be for the good.
"This is the greening of Britain in action. We have the opportunity to create a real legacy for the country - and now, through the UN, many more nations too."