IN efforts to reduce emission of dangerous greenhouse gas, Edo state government has called on residents ensure the planting of at least three trees for every tree fell for various uses.

A statement by the Commissioner for Environment and Public Utilities, Clem Agba, made available to journalists also called on companies operating in the state to take deliberate steps “to have ecologically-friendly policies and corporate/social responsibility agenda”

Agba said: “Our forests are increasingly being felled and cleared for agricultural use and infrastructural development at rates greater than the regeneration capacity of the environment. Demand for production of food puts unprecedented pressure on our forest reserves and invariably lead to forest loss.

“To ameliorate the effect of global warming, we all need to collectively retrace and change our wasteful habits while at the same time embark on an aggressive planting of trees.”