ESG Report2025 v2 - Flipbook - Page 12
TREE PLANTING
SCHEME
Carbon sequestration: Trees absorb carbon
dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis, helping
to mitigate climate change by reducing the
concentration of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere.
SMI PLANT A TREE FOR
EVERY £1,000 ORDER
WE ARE 48% TOWARDS
OUR PLEDGE TO PLANT
50,000 BY 2026
UGANDA
• Planting forest garden: 848 trees.
• 4-year programme expected to plant
1.6 million trees.
• Educates farmers about conservation.
• Allows them to earn a sustainable
income from their fruit and vegetables.
SMI HAS FUNDED THE
PLANTING OF 18,478
TREES ACROSS 9
PROJECTS
TANZANIA
• Planting forest garden: 2,792 trees.
• Improve the lives of roughly 600 local
farmer’s.
• Set to plant upwards of 1.8 million trees
in the two-year project period.
HIGH ANDES
• Restoring native polylepis forests: 100
trees.
• Polylepis trees can grow at altitudes of
up to 5,000m above sea level.
• Ecologi has already funded the
planting of over 450,000 trees over the
last 2 years.
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