Focus Taiwan
Date: 01/29/2020
By: Chang Hsiung-feng and Matthew Mazzetta

Taipei, Jan. 29 (CNA) As director of Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation's (TOAF) coastal tree planting initiative, Cheng Li-yi's (程禮怡) work involves setting high goals and putting in the hard work necessary to achieve them.

In addition to determination, she says, sometimes a bit of serendipity also helps.

During a 2018 speech at the Trillion Trees Campaign — a joint project of the NGO Plant for the Planet and the United Nations Environmental Programme — Cheng inadvertently mistranslated her organization's goal of planting 100 million trees, boosting that figure to one billion.

In an interview with CNA, Cheng called the moment a "beautiful error," explaining that "since I said it, I had no choice but to take responsibility for it".    [FULL  STORY]