Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday proposed the U.S. government offer temporary work visas and eventually citizenship to those who would take part in a huge reforestation program.
Lopez Obrador said he plans to expand the said effort to Central America during a White House virtual climate summit.
The tree-planting program was his administration's signature "Sembrando Vida" or "Sowing Life." He said the program is planting 700,000 trees, according to a Reuters report.
The Mexican president called the effort the largest reforestation effort in the world, noting that it would generate 1.2 million jobs and plant three billion additional trees on expanding to southeastern Central America.