King Charles III has hailed President William Ruto for his tree-planting initiative.
The King said that he admired President Ruto for his efforts to ensure Kenya plants 15 billion trees to combat climate.
"Having been planting trees for most of my life, I thought I was doing rather well, but your ambition for planting 15 billion trees makes me admire your efforts," he said.
King Charles III was speaking on Tuesday evening at the State House during the State Banquet.
Ruto has continuously urged Kenyans to support his agenda of planting 15 billion trees by 2032.
He said that his administration will ensure the agenda is fully implemented.
The aggressive tree-planting campaign is aimed at increasing the country's e forest cover by five billion trees.
The government has also set a national target of planting 500 million trees across the country by December 25.
Environment Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya announced said this will be achieved through the National Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration Programme (NLERP) aimed at realising 15 billion trees by 2032.
“We are hoping that the short rains will come in a consistent version as we go towards realising this target,” Tuya said in a press briefing.
The interventions for the 15 billion trees, she said, have been divided into both ecosystem and intervention areas.
She said green spaces and urban areas which include Karura, City Park and Arboretum in Nairobi are some of the intervention areas targeted “because of the way they help to deal with pollution in our City”.
Tuya stated that the short rains plan will cover all parts of the country and take a whole government and societal approach.
In a bid to achieve this, the CS said the new forest rangers will be deployed to all counties to help in the project.