Traveller offset plan
$17.99 / month
Tree Description
CO2
21,20 Tons
Expected Lifetime
90+ years
Description
Individual offset plan – Plant 10 trees/month and offset your carbon footprint
This project is the perfect sized plan to offset the carbon footprint of an average citizen living in the United Kingdom. The plan entails the offsetting of 1 carbon footprint per year which equals 21.2 Tonnes CO2.
The average carbon footprint of a resident of the United Kingdom is 21.2 Tonnes CO2 e and this monthly planting plan will offset this by funding climate action.
The project involves planting 5 trees per month, chosen among all our projects. Funds will be divided between our projects in Madagascar, Nepal, Kenya, Mozambique, Haiti, Indonesia, Honduras, Nicaragua.
The project aims at protecting and restoring forests on a massive scale by involving local farmers and creating livelihoods for people living in extreme poverty by offering them the dignity of employment and the possibility to become transformational agents of global forest restoration. The plantation, the provision of material resources and labour force, the care and growth of the plants, will be carried out by our planting partner Eden Projects – a nonprofit organization that works in developing countries to rebuild natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation. For these projects, we work directly with villages and communities suffering from extreme poverty resulting from the deforestation and destruction of the land that sustains them.
The following tree species are involved:
Acacia katechu (Khair), Adina cordifolia (Karma/Haldu), Albizia spps (Siris), Alnus nepalensis (Utis), Brassiopsis hainla (Chuletro), Chukrasia tabularis (Chekrasi), Cordia dichtoma (Bohori), Dalbergia latifolia (Satisal), Fraxinus floribunda (Lakhuri), Gogan, Latahar, Litsea monopetala (Kutmero), Maleta, Michelia champaca (Champ), Paile, Pterocarpus marsupium (Bijaya sal), Shorea robusta (Sal), Shorea seminis (Malaysian sal), Tectona grandis(Teak), Terminalia bellerica(Barro), Artocarpus heterophyllus, Lam (Rukh katahar), Azadirachta indica (Neem), Bauhinia variegata (Koiralo), Citrus, limon (Kagati), Coffea arabica (Coffee), Ficus cunia (Khanayo), Ficus nemoralis (Dudhilo), Kavro Dendrocalamus (bamboo), Leuceana leucocephala (Ipil Ipil), Moringa oleifera (Sheetal chini), Cinnamomum camphora (Kapoor), Juniperous indica (Dhupi), Rhododendron arboreum (Laligurans), Acacia karroo, Acacia nilotica, Adansonia digitata, Afzelia quanzensis, Albizia adianthifolia, Albizia lebbeck, Anacardium occidentale, Citrus sinensis, Colophospermum mopane, Dialium schlechteri, Faidherbia albida, Leucaena gigante, Mangifera indica, Millettia stuhlmannii, Moringa oleifera, Psidium guajava, Pterocarpus angolensis, Sclerocarya birrea, Sesbania sesban, Strychnos madagascariensis, Strychnos spinosa, Terminalia sericea, Trichilia emetic, Vangueria infausta, Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Ceriops tagal, Rhizophora mucronata, Avicennia marina, Annona muricata, Prosopis juliflora, Artocarpua altilus, Carica papaya, Spanish Cedar, Catalpa longissima, Cedrela odorata, Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus aurantium, Citrus maxima (Burman), Citrus maxima hybrid, Citrus paradisi, Coffea arabica, Delonix regia, Gliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala, Malpighia punicifolia, Mangifera indica, Persea americana, Senna siamea, Syzygium samarangense, Tamarindus indica, Theobrama cacao,m Rhizophora mangle, Acacia gerrardii, Acacia kirkii, Maesopsis eminii, Acacia xanthophloea, Markhamia lutea, Juniperus procera, Bridelia micrantha, Myrsine Africana, Rhizophora mucronate, Calodendrum capense, Nuxia congesta, Sonneratia alba, Cordia Africana, Olea africana, Cordia sinensis, Podocarpus falcatus, Croton machrostachyus, Podocarpus latifolius, Croton megalocarpus, Prunus Africana, Dodonaea viscosa, Sesbania sesbans, Dombeya torrida
Trilepisium madagascariense, Euclea divinorum, Vepris simplicifolia, Ficus sur, Warburgia ugandensis, Ficus sycomorus, Yushania alpine, Ficus thonningii, Zanthoxylum usambarense, Avocado, Lemon Loquat, Moringa, Papaya, Sonneratia alba, Aphananthe sakalava, Pachypodium rutembergianum, Baudouinia flugeiformis,, Paracarphallea pervilleana, Bismarckia nobilis, Poupartia birrea caffre, Breonadia salincina, Poupartia sylvatica, Bussela perieri, Rhopalocarpus similis, Canarium Rouvafia, Samanea Saman, Cedrelopsis grevei, Sclerocarya birrea subsp. Caffra, Ceiba pentandra, Sclerocroton melanostictus, Cerbera manghas, Sorindeia, Commiphora guillauminii, Stereospermum euphorioides, Commiphora madagascariensis, Strychnos, Commiphora Pervilleana, Coptosperma madagascariense, Symphonia, Dalbergia chlorocarpa, Syzygium cumini, Diospyros aculeata, Diospyros sp., Tectona grandis, Diospyros tropohylla, Terminalia mantaly, Dupuya madagascariensis, Treculia perrieri, Entada leptostachya Zatropha, Adansonia sp., Albizia saman, Albizzia lebeck, Erythroxylum nitidulumm, Grewia, Khaya madagascariensis, Anacardium occidentale, Avincinia Marina, Bruguiera, gumnooshiza, Ceriops tagel, Rhizophora mucronate
The management of the work, the procurement of resources and materials as well as the survival of the trees over time will be carried out by Evertreen’s planting partner Eden Projects.
To calculate this footprint, Evertreen relies on multiple data sets:
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Data from the World Bank which reports CO2 and other greenhouse emissions that occur in your country.
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Data from the Global Carbon Project which reports emissions embedded in imports from overseas. We combine these imported emissions with the country of residence emissions.