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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, unanimously adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, serves as a collective roadmap for promoting peace and prosperity for both people and the planet. At its core lie the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which urgently call for action from all nations—both developed and developing through global collaboration. These goals recognize that addressing poverty and other deprivations must be coupled with strategies to enhance health and education, reduce inequality, and foster economic growth all while addressing climate change and safeguarding our oceans and forests.
The Green Legacy Initiative launched by the Ethiopian government in 2019, aligns with SDG#2, SDG#13 & SDG#15, focusing on ending hunger, combating climate change and ensuring sustainable use of the planet's resources. Ethiopia's Green Legacy initiative represents a monumental effort to combat environmental degradation and climate change through mass reforestation. The initiative, which is part of Ethiopia's broader Climate Resilient Green Economy strategy, set an ambitious target of planting 20 billion seedlings over four years.
Wallaga University is one of the public Universities Established in 2007, with its defined mandates of academic, research and community services. In addition to its given mandates, it is striving to compliment the green legacy development endeavours of the government by planting different edible and indigenous plants on and off the compasses. The Centre of the Studies of Environment and Natural Resource is one of the centres of the university working focusing on environment and natural resource research and conservation. As part of its mandate the centre is working on green legacy by its project entitled ‘Integrated Green Development project’ in the main /Nekemte compass. The centre has owned 7 hectares and planted different plant species to list some from the edible: coffee, banana, apple, mango, avocado and papaya. And Olea Africana, Dolenix regia, African fan palm, Jacaranda, Hagenia abyssinica, Podocarpus falcatus and Spathodea campanulata, are some of the trees planted and being conserved by the project as some pictures of the plants are seen below.