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Ambassador Award 2023 - KUJU Studio from Kosovo for the "Best Art Production of the Year"

At the Initiative of EXIT Festival, Serbia Pledges to Plant Almost 1 Billion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change

That music can indeed help change society is not a new idea for EXIT , the award-winning music festival that started two decades ago as a youth movement for peace and freedom in Serbia and the Balkans.  Twenty years later, EXIT is still a force for change and supports social and environmental issues. The Serbian Government has just adopted EXIT’s Green R:Evolution initiative in which the Festival juggernaut, backed by several local environmental organizations, calls for the mass reforestation that will increase the country’s forest cover by almost 50%. The Serbian Government has begun developing strategic plans for countrywide mass planting actions according to which Serbia's forest cover is expected to increase from the current 28% to at least 40% of the country’s total surface area. This increase means that the Government has pledged to plant almost 1 billion trees in the years to come: "Serbia is willing to do its share to fight climate change. We are commi