The Great Green Wall: Path to Achieve Sustainability

The Great Green Wall is not just about growing trees and plants it is a movement to make indispensable contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Great Green Wall on completion will be the largest living structure on the Earth. It is an ambitious movement to grow an 8,000 km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa.

The Great Green Wall stands as a barrier against Climate Change running across the Sahel region. This semiarid region of western and North-Central Africa extends from Senegal to Djibouti. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara deserts to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south. The wall is not only bringing back life to Africa's degraded landscapes but it is also improving millions of lives. It is improving the lives of people in one of the poorest places on the Earth. It has started to improve food security, jobs, and stability in people's lives.

The Great Green Wall is situated in Africa but it promises to be a compelling solution to many urgent threats faced by the global community as a whole- notably climate change, drought, famine, conflict, and migration. The Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land, sequestrate 250 million tonnes of Carbon, and create 10 million jobs in rural areas by 2030.

Great Green Wall is an excellent example of how students, as part of Smart Campus Cloud Network, can build such green walls around their campuses that link the community and higher educational institutes. Walls built by the campus will reduce the impact of climate change on the communities. With that these walls will also work as Carbon sinks and help the campuses to achieve NotZero Carbon emissions making them carbon neutral.