"Every forest fire means a setback for climate protection"

Felix talks to the Süddeutsche Zeitung about our new FireAlert app.

Interview

"We have an increase of forest fires due to the heat, but we're not taking enough action. We are standing around, watching tv, but we have to stand up and do something."

Roy Phelan, Director of Donate a Tree to the World, United States

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Transparency Report 2021
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Felix Finkbeiner: We need to reduce our global CO2-emissions as rapidly as possible. But that alone is not enough: Trees are wonderful climate change reversal machines."

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The world had 3 trillion trees.
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`Why the world needs
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Plant-for-the-Planet Brazil

Together with our sister organisations around the world, Plant-for-the-Planet Brazil has been working towards empowering young people to fight the climate crisis and restoring forests for many years

Plant-for-the-Planet Czech Republic

After years of empowering children to act on the climate crisis, the Czech Ambassadors started a Foundation to join forces with national celebrities, companies and organisations. Their mission: to mobilise for forest restoration both globally and in Czechia, inspire global solidarity and shift climate Czech climate attitudes towards hope.

9,289

Trees

planted in 2021

1,000+

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

12

Academies

to empower Children

Our Work in Czechia

Current Campaign

Plant-for-the-Planet Germany

Plant-for-the-Planet provides solutions to the greatest challenge of our time: the climate crisis. For this purpose, the Foundation empowers children and youth worldwide to become Climate Justice Ambassadors and joins forces with many other organizations to restore and protect forest ecosystems - with the help of scientific research and innovative technology. Plant-for-the-Planet was founded in 2007 by the then 9-year-old Felix Finkbeiner.

23,218

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

560

Academies

to empower Children

Plant-for-the-Planet Ghana

Plant-for-the-Planet Ghana is the national affiliate of Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation operating in Ghana. Plant-for-the-Planet Ghana was founded in 2020 and is an independent non-profit and non-governmental organisation advocating and working globally to address the inter-connected global challenges of climate crisis, poverty eradication and environmental degradation through advocacy, global campaigns, climate education and restoration projects.

67,612

Trees

planted

2,400

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

30

Academies

to empower Children

Plant-for-Ghana

Plant-for-the-Planet Italy

Our heart goes out to future generations, to the children of today who will become the climate leaders of the planet. We have a deep desire to enable them to actively embrace the power of sustainable reforestation and climate justice as essential tools in their future choices. We want to build a better world together with them, where nature is protected, the climate is fair and the future is full of hope.

1351

Trees

planted

281

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

6

Academies

to empower Children

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Plant-for-the-Planet Spain

Since 2013, Plant-for-the-Planet Spain has organised academies to train thousands of kids to become climate justice ambassadors and and is now planting tens of thousands of trees a year in Andalucía to restore the forests around Granada and Doñana.

341,031

Trees

planted in Andalucía

4,543

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

133

Academies

for children's empowerment

Andalucía Reforestation

Our Work in Spain

Plant-for-the-Planet Switzerland

No one is too small to be a world changer. Inspired by the engagement of a schoolboy, the founder of Planet-for-the-Planet Felix Finkbeiner, the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation Switzerland was established in 2016. Together with our supporters in Switzerland, we foster the restoration and protection of forest ecosystems as a nature-based solution, climate education, and empowerment of children and young people. In favor of their future and that of our environment, we want to counteract the climate and biodiversity crisis and create global climate justice.

Plant-for-the-Planet UK

Plant-for-the-Planet UK believes in the global vision to restore a trillion trees by mobilizing funds and empowering young people. We work together with charities, researchers, youth networks, private donors and companies looking to contribute to the global movement.

We look forward to continuing our work in England and Wales and across the globe with restoration charities, educators and like-minded optimists.

315,692

Trees

planted

580

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

19

Academies

for children's empowerment

Plant-for-the-Planet US

Plant-for-the-Planet U.S., in collaboration with our global partner organizations, strives to empower young people worldwide in combating the climate crisis and restoring ecosystems. With dedication, we work towards nurturing a generation of proactive change-makers, equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge to fight for climate justice. Together, we are committed to fostering a sustainable future by restoring ecosystems and safeguarding our planet's biodiversity.

2,407

Climate Justice

Ambassadors

36

Academies

for children's empowerment

Climate Justice Ambassadors:
We Make Ourselves Heard

Almost 100,000 children and youth have already been trained at 1,752 academies in 75 countries, where we teach each other about the climate crisis. As Climate Justice Ambassadors we fight for our future by planting trees, giving speeches, protesting, and much more.

Upcoming Academies

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Young Children ay Trees for Climate Justice Event

Why the world needs
a trillion more trees!

The world currently has three trillion trees and has space for a trillion more. Trees are one of the most powerful tools that buy us time in the fight against the climate crisis. Only by restoring these forests, we will be able to keep temperature rise below 1.5°C.

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The world's current 3 trillion trees in green. The potential for a further 1 trillion trees in yellow.

Mexican Reforestation Projects

On the Yucatán Peninsula and the state of Mexico, we are restoring forests to fight the climate crisis. Forest restoration generates jobs, protects biodiversity, and absorbs the greenhouse gas CO₂.

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TreeMapper, fire alarm and the the platform opened on multiple devices in front of a world map

The Plant-for-the-Planet Platform

A free software toolset to fund, manage and monitor forest restoration. Used by over 200 projects around the world. Get started within minutes.

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The Change Chocolate

The chocolate that plants trees. Fairtrade. Over 9 million trees planted!

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We want to work with you on your climate journey and mobilize your community for forest restoration.

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Sustainable Events

"At age 9, Felix Finkbeiner planted his first tree. He had just learned about Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an effort to plant 30 million trees in Africa. The boy was struck by her message — that trees are powerful allies in the fight to curb global warming."

"The race for a trillion trees can continue to motivate donors, but Finkbeiner says that his organization is no longer focused on counting trees. Ultimately, he believes, the movement’s success or failure in restoring the world’s forests will be judged not by the number of trees planted, but via satellite imagery, viewed over the long term, and discussed the old-fashioned way — in hectares."

"Children are not often invited to speak to the United Nations General Assembly. But there stood Felix Finkbeiner, German wunderkind in his Harry Potter spectacles, gray hoodie, and mop-top haircut—with a somber question about climate change."

"We are all impressed by Greta Thunberg, but what about Felix Finkbeiner? He’s a young German environmentalist who, at the age of 9, proposed that every country commit to planting 1 million trees and then, at 13, upped the ante and suggested at the United Nations that we target 1 trillion by 2050."

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Forest Protection and Restoration in the Fight Against the Climate Crisis: Insights from a Major Study in Nature

World Climate Conference COP 28: Expectations of Our Delegation

Two succesfull Academies in Nigeria in June to welcome new Climate Justice Ambassadors

January 2007

9-year-old Felix calls on children to plant one million trees in every country.

May 2010

One millionth tree planted

Felix makes the first ever call for a trillion more trees at the UN General Assembly

February 2011

Felix speaks at the United Nations. For the first time, he calls for restoring one trillion trees.

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UN hands over the Billion Tree Campaign to Plat for the Planets. We rename it to Trillion Tree Campaign to Plant for the Planet

December 2011

UN hands over the Billion Tree Campaign to us. We turned it into the Trillion Tree Campaign.

Yucatán Reforestation launched. Plant for the Planet plant two million trees in a year.

May 2015

Yucatán Restoration launched. We now plant two million trees a year and protect an essential ecosystem reserve.

September 2015

3 Trillion Trees currently exist globally, shows Nature paper by Dr Tom Crowther

March 2018

Launch of the Trillion Tree Campaign with Prince Albert II of Monaco

June 2019

One Trillion Trees could be restored, shows Science paper by the Crowther Lab.

Launch of iPhone & Android app allows everyone to donate trees to projects around the world

September 2019

Launch of our free platform pp.eco that allows anyone to donate trees to projects around the world.

January 2020

World Economic Forum and world leaders join call for Trillion trees in Davos

Plant for the Planet Webapp launch brings added transparency to reforestation projects

December 2020

The launch of our web app, which can be accessed via the browser on desktops and mobile phones, creates additional transparency for restoration projects.

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