After meeting Wangari Maathai, Jacques Rocher pledged to plant a million trees as part of the new Plant for the Planet programme. More than a decade after meeting the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Yves Rocher Foundation will soon have planted 100 million trees around the world, becoming a benchmark name in the field.
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