At CarltonOne, we’ve committed ourselves to intentional, sustainable, and strategic actions that support our fundamental concern about climate change. We’re not about using the environment to garner simple donations or generate corporate goodwill. We see responsibility as an opportunity.
We have the reach, the capability, the passion, and the Evergrow business model to do something to help our environment. We believe that it is this clarity of purpose that helps us attract both exceptional talent and exceptional clients. Working with extraordinary people makes it easy to create employee recognition, rewards, channel incentive and customer loyalty programs.
Millions of new trees every year
Today, we’re funding new trees when our clients' members make reward transactions.
When we plant trees to sequester carbon, we’re also growing communities. Our projects target high-priority sites suffering from deforestation and severe poverty. Our direct funding has been used to plant in Madagascar, Honduras, Nepal, Kenya, Indonesia, the US, Canada and Mozambique.
We're proud to partner with Veritree
Veritree is a Canadian company that works with planting organizations across the globe to fund the purchase of seeds, operate nurseries, conduct planting work, provide training to the local farmers, and protect the planting site to ensure high survival rate.
Madagascar
In Madagascar, our funding for mangrove planting has created 106 full-time jobs in the local Mahajanga community. We have planted over 5 million mangroves in the Betsiboka region. This critical employment has enabled villagers in this area to become more independent, and be less vulnerable to exploitation by a local gang who cut down mangroves and bake them to form valuable charcoal.
Nepal
In the shadow of Mt.Everest in Nepal we have planted over 400,000 new native trees to help stabilize the soil against frequent mudslides. Our project there provides steady employment to local communities that previously would not have had any income. We’re proud to help provide enough income stability to spark new women-led microbusinesses.
Mozambique
In the southeast African country of Mozambique we have funded the planting of over 1 million new mangroves on the shores of the Rio Tembe river. This mangrove reforestation project addresses not just the environmental needs along the Rio Tembe river, but also the urgent humanitarian needs of the local community. Our planting partner is now able to provide 84 days a month of regular work to many local poverty-stricken families.
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These are just 3 examples of the projects we have funded. Tree planting, and the ongoing nurturing and protection of new forests, brings local villagers critical jobs, food security, social empowerment and a reliable income. We’ve been able to fund nearly 13,000 workdays of local employment in the countries our planting projects are operating.