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Planting the PineBridge Forest

Reforestation Project

In 2021, PineBridge began reforestation initiatives in Peru, Madagascar, and India through a partnership with Tree-Nation, a non-profit organization that works with corporations and local planters around the world to plant trees. Aside from protecting biodiversity and offsetting carbon emissions, this initiative helps create jobs and support local communities.

So far, Tree-Nation has planted over 8000 trees on our behalf, enough to eventually offset 1,381.17 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions – the equivalent of taking nearly 300 internal combustion engine cars off the road.

About Tree-Nation 

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Tree-Nation is a non-profit organisation on a mission to reforest the world. With planting trees shown to be one of the most effective ways to fight climate change, Tree-Nation helps restore forests, create jobs, support local communities and protect biodiversity through reforestation and conservation projects.

Tree-Nation aims to bring a technological solution to deforestation, responsible for about 17% of all climate change emissions, by using technology to make tree planting easy and provide support, advice and solutions to citizens and companies to help them transition towards a sustainable future. Find more information here.

Evolution of nº of trees planted and CO2 captured

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Source: Tree-Nation as of 31 December 2022. See “The Forest of PineBridge Investments.”

Why trees are essential to our future:

Trees and forests are the earth's lungs, producing oxygen while absorbing CO2 and harmful pollutant gases. Natural forests capture CO2, acting as carbon sinks. Every year, forests and trees absorb the equivalent of two billion tonnes of CO2, roughly one-third of all CO2 released from the burning of fossil fuels.

Trees slow rain runoff and purify our water as it filters through their roots.

Trees’ root systems make soil less vulnerable to erosion, and their canopies also protect the soil below.

Forests support approximately 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Trees also support vital insect populations, with some varieties, such as the birch and willow, sustaining upwards of 300 species.

Many of the world’s extreme poor live close to forested areas. Food, drink, and raw materials obtained from these forests can account for up to 28% of total household earnings in some tropical and subtropical regions.

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