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Earth Day Service Day
Tree Plantings

Rotary International President 2017-2018, Ian H.S. Riseley believes that protecting the environment and curbing climate change are essential to Rotaryâs goal of sustainable service. Environmental degradation and global climate change are serious threats to everyone, Riseley said. âThey are having a disproportionate impact on those who are most vulnerable, those to whom Rotary has the greatest responsibility. Yet environmental issues rarely register on the Rotary agenda,â he said.

âThe time is long past when environmental sustainability can be dismissed as not Rotaryâs concern. It is, and must be, everyoneâs concern,â he said.

RI President Riseley challenged every Rotary club to make a difference by planting a tree for each of its members between the start of the Rotary year on 1 July and Earth Day on 22 April 2018. Trees remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the air, which slows global warming.