Felix Finkbeiner (b. 1997) and PLANT for the PLANET

Felix is a German environmentalist and founder of the international tree planting and environmental advocacy organization Plant-for-the -Planet.

Aged just 9 he was inspired by Wangari Maathai, from Kenya, who inspired a group of women to plant 30 million trees .

Aged 9 he gave his first presentation to his class. His classmates clapped and cheered when he planted his first tree.

News of the project spread and in April 2007 with help from his family he launched his children’s tree planting campaign.

Aged 10 spoke in the European Parliament.

In October 2008, with his sister Franziska and Gregory they held a special week-end. 100 children attended to train to be Climate Justice Ambassadors.
After just 3 years the initiative resulted in 1,000,000 trees being planted…

Met Wangari at UN meeting in New York. They combined efforts. By February 2011 over 12 billion trees planted.

2012 launched Die Gute Schokolade - Change Chocolate bar. The chocolate is Fair Trade and carbon neutral. For every 5 bars bought a tree is planted in Mexico (every 15 seconds a tree is planted).
Aged 13 attended the UN General Assembly.

Today Felix leads an organisation with 130 employees.
Their target is 3,000,000,000, 000 trees ( 3 trillion) by 2030.

His/their target is to help slow down climate change.

Sources
Wikipedia
Earth Heroes by Lily Dyu and Amy Blackwell