Turning the desert into a forest is no easy task. But that’s exactly what the International Olympic Committee has set out to do. The sporting body has collaborated with charity Tree Aid to sponsor the Olympic Forest – an initiative to plant 590,000 trees across Mali and Senegal over the next four years. They’ve already seeded 70,000 – a figure that “delights” IOC president Thomas Bach. “The Olympic Forest is a key driver of the IOC’s ambition to move from now being a carbon-neutral to a climate-positive organisation in 2024 and helps us to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than we emit,” …
