Restore forests to combat the climate crisis
IGEL partners with Plant-for-the-Planet to take action for a more sustainable future through global forest restoration projects. Together we plant trees to restore forest carbon sinks and support our partner’s development of cutting edge software solutions for restoration projects and wildfire control.
Join forces to protect and restore our global forests
At Now & Next Miami we planted 2,026 Trees
Together with customers, partners, and our wider community, IGEL continued its commitment to sustainability with a green booth and donation platform to global tree reforestation projects for future generations.
Enabled by our ongoing partnership with Plant-for-the-Planet, every tree donated during the event was matched by an IGEL tree donation, amplifying the collective effort across 11 reforestation projects worldwide. Throughout the event we donated 2,026 trees, moving towards our goal to achieve 26,000 trees this year.
Plant Trees in the Americas
Plant Trees in Europe
Plant Trees in Africa, Asia and Australia
To date we have planted in these locations
Plant-for-the-Planet - a quest for forest restoration to combat the climate crisis
Plant-for-the-Planet was founded in 2007 by Felix Finkbeiner, who was 9 years old at the at time, following a school presentation on the climate crisis. Today it is a worldwide movement of high quality restoration projects and official partner of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.
Plant-for-the-Planet provides a high-tech toolset to fund, manage and monitor forest restoration at 300 project sites worldwide.
- the fundraising platform allows trees to be donated worldwide
- the TreeMapper-app tracks the development of the trees
- the FireAlert-app, using NASA satellite data, enables faster reaction to control wildfires
Supported by leading companies, the focus is to:
- restore ecosystems that have been degraded and destroyed by working closely with local government and communities
- conduct restoration research with scientific analysis and transparent reporting
- empower young people to become Climate Justice Ambassadors through educational activities at academies in 75 countries worldwide
Why the world needs a trillion more trees
Restoring lost trees is essential to preventing the climate crisis. Of the original 6 trillion trees that once covered the earth’s landmass, only 3 trillion remain. Trees generate a sustainable, low-carbon future for us all by:
- reducing emissions by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere
- storing the carbon in their structure and in the soil
- protecting and improving carbon sinks like forests
Trees offer mankind valuable time to reduce CO2 emissions. Researchers at ETH Zurich assume that 1 trillion additional trees can shift the climate system tipping points by ten to 15 years.
2-Degree Goal: Only with a combination of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the reforestation of 1 trillion trees by 2030 will it be possible to maintain the 2-degree limit and even as close to 1.5°C as possible as set down in the Paris Climate Agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21).
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