Here’s some good news for the environment: According to ANDINA and other news outlets, Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has initiated an ambitious countrywide tree-planting campaign to counter the effects of climate change. The project began in December with the goal of planting 40 million trees by February 20. That translates to half a million trees per day or more than 40 million trees in a little less than three months. The trees will capture more than 570,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, a representative for the Ministry of Agriculture estimates. Notes El Comercio: “A workforce of 130,000 people has been recruited, and each person will be planting about 4.5 trees per day. Eucalyptus, pine, cypress and…