The Change

Chocolate

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The Change Chocolate

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🍫 🍫 🍫 🍫 🍫 = 🌳

Every 6 seconds someone enjoys a bar.
Every 30 seconds we plant a tree.

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10,303,914

trees financed. Of which

9,998,000

have already been planted.

*Numbers updated quarterly.
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The Change Chocolate Dark

In addition to the classic milk chocolate and the organic variant, The Change Chocolate Dark is added to our range since the fall of 2023. It is Fairtrade and organic-certified, vegan, and makes a double contribution to the future: With the purchase, the foundation work of Plant-for-the-Planet is supported and, of course, the plain variant also plants trees against the climate crisis: 5 bars = 1 tree! 

From autumn on you can buy Die Gute Schokolade Zartbitter for example at dm, EDEKA, famila, Markant and in our The Good Shop. The exact date for the start of sales depends on the respective market and can therefore vary from region to region. So keep your eyes open and, if necessary, just ask the store management if your store already has Die Gute Schokolade Zartbitter in its assortment.

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Fairtrade.

Stiftung Warentest: Best Chocolate.

Made in Switzerland.

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The Change Chocolate with a broken off piece

10 years ago, young Max had an idea.
Now we plant 1 million chocolate trees every year.
How did that happen?


Back in 2012

it all began with a bitter setback.

13-year-old Felix was invited to present in front of 350 chocolate industry bosses. After explaining why trees are so important to flight the climate crisis, he asked: please donate one euro per ton chocolate produced. Not one of them agreed to participate.

"This is shocking" he said as he left the stage in tears.

A few days later, 12-year-old Max had an idea. Let’s make our own chocolate. A chocolate that plants trees.

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DARK

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CLASSIC

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ORGANIC

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Get it in Austria at

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ORGANIC

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Your Special Edition

Something to celebrate? Why not do it with a special edition of The Change Chocolate.

A Sticker with your design

Minimum Order: 500 bars

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A Sash with your design

Minimum Order: 2,500 bars

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A Wrapper with your 5 designs

Minimum Order: 11,760 bars

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City Editions

Want to bring a personalised version of 'The Change Chocolate' to the stores in your city?

Over 20 cities have done so already.

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COP Edition

Every year, at the international climate conferences we partner
with the UNFCCC to hand out our demands to world leaders – printed on chocolate.

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SDG Edition

Together with the United
Nations we celebrated the
17 Sustainable Development Goals

Some of our favourite special editions so far

Designed by children in art competitions
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    Where the chocolate trees are planted

    The majority of the trees funded with The Change Chocolate were planted in the Volcano Valley project. The rest in other projects in Mexico and the Philippines.

    Who plants & protects those trees?


    What do these trees look like a few years after planting?


    The Change Chocolate. Everywhere.

    Currently, 'The Change Chocolate' is only sold in Germany and Austria, due to the availability of our current partners.

    If you are interested in helping us find partners in your country, please contact schokolade@plant-for-the-planet.org for further details.

    5 Bars of The Change Chocolate city edition

    Plant your own forest with The Change Chocolate

    Did you find the tree voucher code on the chocolate wrapper? Register once on our planting platform. You can enter your code for free. We will plant the tree regardless, but if you don’t redeem the code, it will not count towards your tree goal. You can also plant more trees, set a planting goal, plant a planting contest with friends and invite others to donate to your forest.
    The Change Chocolate Redeem Coupon to plant trees

    The Best Chocolate.

    According to Stiftung Warentest – Germany’s leading consumer organization founded by its government – The Change Chocolate is the best chocolate in Germany among 25 milk chocolates (issue 12/2018) they tested. Lauding, among other factors, it's "very vanilla, caramel, nutty" taste.
    The Change Chocolate test winners
    The Change Chocolate in a supermarket shelf

    Shelf service

    Other manufacturers have service staff who prepare the chocolate on the shelf in a neat way. You can do this job for 'The Change Chocolate'! If the chocolate is sold out, please ask the store manager to reorder immediately and post a photo of the empty shelf on 'The Change Chocolate' Facebook page.

    Chocolate tasting

    The best advertising for a product is when you get to try it out. That's what our 'The Change Chocolate' tasting campaigns are for, which you can do in just a few steps, if you are in Austria or Germany. It is super easy and a lot of fun. So you are part of it:

    1. Choose a shop in our area, which sells the chocolate. Speak with the manager about hosting a chocolate tasting. 
    2. Get in contact with us at least one week in advance: schokolade@plant-for-the-planet.org  to let us know the date and time of our event. We will send you chocolate, flyers and posters.
    3. Make sure the manager of the shop remembers the date and time, and let them know that they need sufficient stock of the chocolate. One Event sold 200 bars of chocolate in 3 hours! 
    4. Publish the event on facebook so your friends can participate. Maybe you can also advertise in the shop. 
    5. On the day: build a stall, prepare your information material, open some chocolate for tasting and talk to customers about the chocolate. If they are interested let them know where the chocolate can be found in the shop. 
    The Change Chocolate supermarket tasting
    Two Change Chocolates in front of a Change Chocolate cake

    Recipes

    Plant trees while baking! You can create beautiful and tasty baked goods and forests using the chocolate. We have some recipes for brownies, chocolate cake and more.

    Check our Instagram and Facebook pages for new recipes.

    Campaign

    Show the world your #chocolateside Doing good is now possible not only with delicious chocolate, but also quite simply with a Selfie! Show your #chocolateside on instagram, facebook and twitter and become part of our campaign!

    Join in and post a selfie!

    1. Smartphone out 
    2. Show your chocolate side 
    3. Take a selfie - cover half of your face with 'The Change Chocolate'
    4. Post it! Dont forget: #chocolateside
    The Change Chocolate Campaign

    FAQ

    Questions or ideas?

    Feel free to write to us at schokolade@plant-for-the-planet.org
    Die Gute Schokolade is a product of the Plant-for-the-Planet Service GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation