Evertreen vs Ecologi: Honest 2026 Comparison
11 Jun 2026 in Corporate planting
Evertreen and Ecologi are both UK climate platforms offering Verra and Gold Standard credits, and the real difference is what you get to show afterwards: Ecologi packages climate action as a low-effort monthly subscription behind a well-known consumer brand, while Evertreen geolocates and satellite-monitors every individual tree so the impact is evidence rather than a profile page. Choose Ecologi for simplicity; choose Evertreen when someone is going to ask you to prove it.
Two UK climate platforms, two different strengths. Here's an honest, side-by-side look at how Evertreen and Ecologi compare for businesses in 2026.
Choose Evertreen if…
You want verified, fully traceable impact (GPS + satellite on every tree), your own branded forest, branded videos from the field, gift-a-tree and PR visibility for your brand.
Choose Ecologi if…
You mainly want a simple, low-effort subscription behind a well-known consumer brand to embed climate action into your business.
Side by side
| Evertreen | Ecologi | |
|---|---|---|
| Based in | UK (Brentford) | UK (Bristol) |
| Carbon verification | Verra & Gold Standard available | Verra / Gold Standard credits |
| Per-tree tracking | GPS + satellite, every tree | Project/portfolio level, limited real-time |
| Branded forest | Yes — your own named forest | Profile page |
| Branded field videos | Yes — filmed with your brand | No |
| Gift a tree | Yes — geolocated + custom certificate | Limited |
| PR & media for your brand | Yes — across 300+ outlets | No |
| CO₂ calculator | Yes | Yes |
| API / e-commerce | Yes — Shopify app + API | Yes — Shopify app + API |
| Open to | Individuals, SMEs & enterprise — from £1 | Mainly subscriptions, from ~£5/mo |
What Evertreen does better
- Proof per tree — GPS coordinates and satellite monitoring on every tree, not portfolio-level estimates.
- Brand value — branded videos from the planting round, your own named forest, and PR across 300+ media.
- Traceable gifting — gift a real, geolocated tree with a custom certificate.
- One provider, both — certified offsets and physical, trackable trees together.
Where Ecologi is strong
- Brand recognition — an established consumer-facing name (57M+ trees funded).
- Employee engagement — ready-made team and employee climate subscription plans.
- Simplicity — straightforward subscriptions that embed climate action into your business.
- Scale — a large marketplace of verified credits and tree projects.
Which should you choose?
If your priority is verified, visible impact — carbon you can certify, trees you can trace to a GPS point and a satellite image, and a story your customers and stakeholders can actually see — Evertreen is the stronger fit.
If you simply want a fast, low-effort way to embed climate action behind a familiar consumer brand, Ecologi does that well. And because Evertreen also offers an API and e-commerce integrations, you don't have to trade traceability for convenience.
The real question: subscription or evidence?
Because both platforms offer certified credits, the certification line in the table is not what should decide this. The decision sits on a different axis.
A subscription optimises for low effort. It is set up once, it runs monthly, and it produces a tidy profile page. That is genuinely valuable for a small business that wants climate action handled without a project owner, and there is no shame in choosing it for that reason.
Per-tree traceability optimises for scrutiny. It costs more attention to set up and it produces something different at the end: coordinates, imagery and field video tied to specific trees. That matters when a customer, an auditor or a procurement team asks how you know — and increasingly they do.
A useful test: imagine the sentence you want to publish next year. If it is “we fund climate projects monthly”, either platform works. If it is “we funded these specific trees, in this place, and here is the footage”, only one of them produces that.
Where each one genuinely wins
Ecologi wins on brand recognition and on the sheer simplicity of a recurring plan from about £5 a month. If nobody in your business owns sustainability and you want it running by this afternoon, that is a real advantage rather than a consolation prize.
Evertreen wins when the output has to be inspectable: GPS and satellite on every tree, branded field videos, a named forest, gift-a-tree with geolocated certificates, and entry from £1 rather than a monthly commitment. It also covers individuals and one-off corporate programmes, not only subscriptions.
What to check before you commit — with anyone
These six questions apply to every platform on this page, this one included. A supplier who answers all six without hesitating is doing the work; one who deflects is selling a number.
Can you locate an individual tree? A country is not traceability; a coordinate is.
Who maintains the site, and are they paid for it? The first three years decide survival, and maintenance is where cheap programmes quietly economise.
What is the measured survival rate, and how was it sampled? Planting counts are easy to publish; survival is the number that reflects whether a forest resulted.
Are the species native and suited to the site? The wrong tree in the wrong place can damage the ecosystem it was sold as helping.
Is the carbon methodology published? A single flattering per-tree figure with no method behind it is the clearest warning sign in this sector.
What exactly may you claim in public? Particularly relevant now that EU rules restrict offset-based carbon-neutral product claims to consumers from 27 September 2026.
How Evertreen answers the first three is set out in how planted trees are verified, and the absorption assumptions are published in how we estimate tree CO₂.
Being straight about this comparison
Evertreen publishes this page, so weigh the verdict accordingly. Every claim above about our own platform can be demonstrated before you spend anything — ask for a specific tree's coordinates and the survival data behind its site.
Ecologi is a well-run platform with a strong reputation, and for a business that wants climate action to be one decision rather than a programme, it is a sensible choice. We would rather tell you that than pretend the comparison is one-sided.
FAQ
It depends on your goal. Evertreen wins for verified, fully traceable impact and brand visibility; Ecologi is a good fit for a simple, low-effort climate subscription behind a well-known brand.
Yes — Ecologi funds Verra and Gold Standard credits. Evertreen can also provide Verra/Gold Standard certified offsets, plus GPS and satellite tracking on every tree.
Traceability and brand value: Evertreen tracks each tree by GPS and satellite and adds branded videos, a branded forest and PR; Ecologi focuses on simple, large-scale climate integration.
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