The 'Global Greening' initiative turns 10 this week - here's how it all began
Victoria Falls, one of hundreds of locations that will take part in this year's Global Greening initiative Image: Tourism Ireland Victoria Falls, one of hundreds of locations that will take part in this year's Global Greening initiative Image: Tourism Ireland ON THE SURFACE, a leopard statue in Kenya, a DC-3 plane in Hong Kong, and a street-skating event in Paris don’t have all that much in common.
“Rodney Walshe arranged for the Sky Tower in Auckland in New Zealand to be lit up green for St Patrick’s Day in 2009. The Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi, which is taking part in this year's Global Greening initiative Source: Tourism Ireland “You can’t take it for granted when you have something happen one year that it’ll happen the following year, and that you can come back every time,” Gibbons explains.“The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade came on board, and we would never have got places like the Great Wall of China over the line if it wasn’t for the ambassador there.
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