As COP15 opens, Canada pledges down payment for international finance for biodiversity

“Children and youth are the future stewards of the planet and we urgently need to conserve, restore and safeguard the environment for them. The ChariTree Foundation welcomes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement today of $350 million in new international finance for biodiversity,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder & Children’s Biodiversity Education Advocate, The ChariTree Foundation. “Leaders at COP15 must act now to save nature. If we don’t, kids will have fewer and fewer opportunities to fall in love with nature and that would be a critical loss because you protect what you love.”

COMING SOON

Adventures with Teens: Tips to get teens offline and outdoors. Article by Andrea Koehle Jones. (Fall 2022 edition)

#POETRYMONTH: My Persephone by Andrea Koehle Jones

My Persephone Poem turned into lyrics by Canadian lyricist Andrea Koehle Jones (SOCAN) You say you’re here to stay you say this time you’ll fight it. But I know leaves fall and you’ll fall down beside them. Falling down, underground, into the deepest blue I know – you don’t want … Read more

The ChariTree Foundation is in New York at the United Nations General Assembly today. 

March 28, 2022. “Climate change is already a humanitarian crisis and kids are worried. Let’s grow inclusive and transformative environmental education opportunities, especially for children and youth in regions hardest hit by the climate emergency,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder, Executive Director and Children’s Climate Education Advocate, The ChariTree Foundation.“Stockholm+50 … Read more

Happy World Read Aloud Day!

All over the world, authors, illustrators, teachers and librarians will read books to school students through the magic of the internet! In honour of #WRAD, Canadian children’s author + environmental education activist Andrea Koehle Jones will read her book, The Wish Trees: How Planting Trees Can Help Make the World … Read more