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MILLION TREES BY 2025
           An Organico Forest: ½ A MILL                                                                                           I O      N T          R     E     E    S B          Y       2   0     2    5







            Tropical      Biodiverse      Socially-inclusive       Poverty alleviation

            Local/community engagement      Credible/stable                                                                         STEP 3: Support

                                                                                                                                    Positive Action


























                                                                                                                                     Camp Contour Lines – Guatemala

                                                                                                                                    To tackle soil degradation, we’ve partnered with Ecosystem Restoration Camps,
                                                                                                                                    who help restoration projects worldwide with expertise and volunteer labour.
                                                                                                                                    Inspired by John D Liu their vision is to restore heavily degraded land using
           STEP 2: Offset/Defend                                                                                                    regenerative and ecological agricultural principles.


           Nature Systems






           - The planet needs as              - Our Pledge: every year             - From the research of
           much reforestation,                we will pay as much as it            various tree charity sites
           forest protection and tree         would cost us to be certified        we extracted a carbon
           growing as possible.               on a verified carbon removal         drawdown value of 246kg
                                              scheme directly into Eden            for the 20 year lifetime of
           - The next 20-30 years             Reforestation, our chosen tree       each tree planted.
           are critical to  reach             charity. Certification adds big
           drawdown to accompany              intermediary costs - up to           - Our 2020 offset                                 Environmental Justice Foundation
           the slowly de carbonising          50x’s more!  We want all our         investment of 100,000
           transition.                        money to go on trees, not            trees equals 24x’s our                            We’re supporting the EJF work on climate refugees which highlights the impact
                                              clipboards and spreadsheets,         1000 ton footprint which                          climate change has on the planet’s most vulnerable people.  EJF work tirelessly on
           - Tree planting charities          or intermediaries.                   gives ample cover for                             the link between social and ecological deprivation and do excellent work in the
           are using an average tree                                               mis-calculations.                                 world of fisheries/oceans.
           life of 20 years.


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