# Khan government launches the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami

Date: 2018

## The fact

In 2018–19 the Khan government scaled KP’s Billion Tree Tsunami into a national Ten Billion Tree Tsunami afforestation campaign.

## Context

KP’s earlier programme was WWF-audited. National scale-up used the forest department and army planting days. Survival rates and grazing pressure are leaks. He did not write a UNFCCC nationally determined contribution by himself.

Sahiwal coal on Shehbaz’s Punjab row is a neighbouring fossil file. COP pledges are later international rows.

Pakistan’s prime minister is elected by the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) and chairs the cabinet. He does not write IMF Executive Board minutes, Indian statutes, army operational orders, NAB judgments, or PBS CPI methodology. A maiden speech is not a Finance Act. A rally is not a gazette. A diplomatic cable is not a completed foreign coup. A tweet is not a statute.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Climate Change Pakistan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is deforestation pressure: a completed national planting campaign can raise tree cover if seedlings survive, with audit lag.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2018–19 national Ten Billion Tree launch under his premiership, independently reported.

Not established: that ten billion surviving trees exist, or a unique later rainfall coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Forest departments planted. WWF had audited the KP precursor. Grazers and drought kill some stock.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Khan government launches the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami, not a later speech about Khan government launches the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Khan government launches the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami on 2018-09-02 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Climate Change Pakistan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Khan government launches the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He scaled the federal campaign. Forest departments planted. WWF had audited the KP precursor. Grazers and drought kill some stock. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Tropical deforestation pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-deforestation-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-environment-trees-idUSKCN1LN0K4
- https://www.mocc.gov.pk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-ten-billion-trees-2018