Trees Matter
Replant our global forests, regenerate this crucial natural capital and ecosystem and offset your carbon footprint!
Stop deforestation and plant trees for good
Did you know that the current rate of deforestation loss is 36 football fields every minute? (Conservation International)
Did you know that the loss of forests contributes between 12% and 17% of the annual global greenhouse gas emissions? (World Resource Institute)
The quest for a sustainable future has gained traction in the region with local and national initiatives and development plans such as the Dubai2040 Urban Master Plan, the UAE National Sequestration Pledge to plant 100 million mangroves by 2030, and Saudi Arabia’s campaign to plant 10 billion trees in the coming decades.
Goumbook has launched Trees Matter, a program designed to facilitate companies’ efforts to plant in the UAE and beyond, offering businesses and organizations the opportunity to contribute to reforestation and restoration of ecosystems, while meeting their sustainability goals through a range of local and global planting projects.
In order to better report and monitor progress, Goumbook has partnered with the United Nations Trillion Tree Campaign, with the National Sequestration Program by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change & Environment, and has joined the Global Mangrove Alliance.
Recently, Goumbook has launched a 2 yearlong project in the emirate of Ajman, transforming bare land into a thriving ecosystem: the first mangrove afforestation program in the MENA region, with the added benefit of including a visitor centre to boost Sustainable Tourism and a research centre to support Academia and Research. The project is led by Goumbook in partnership with Ajman Government.
How can we help you?
Trees Matter contributes to the regeneration of forests as a nature-based solutions. By partnering with Goumbook your company can contribute to protect the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems.
- Nature provides the best solutions for carbon capture and storage (CCS), in the form of forests.
- Trees and forests play a crucial and vital role in preserving the environment’s biodiversity with its efficient carbon emissions capturing therefore curving global warming and climate change, global water cycles and supplies the oxygen that makes life possible.
- Humanity relies on forests as an irreplaceable source of foods and medicine.
- Social standards through the livelihoods of 1.6 Billion people that rely directly on the forests. Deforestation affects soil erosion and increases the risk and impact of floods.
- Economic activity within the direct and indirect industries that rely on the forests’ vast resources
