In Madagascar, where 90% of the country’s forests have been lost to deforestation, the tech company Salesforce is working with a nonprofit to pay workers to plant and protect 10 million trees. In Australia, it’s paying to restore 30,000 native trees on degraded farmland. In Latin America, it’s funding more than 600,000 new trees in six countries in the Andes. In Tanzania, it’s helping fund the natural regeneration of 800,000 trees. In areas destroyed by wildfire in California, it’s helping support work to用种子替换成千上万的树木,在下一场大火中燃烧的可能性较小。
在坦桑尼亚,一个项目训练当地社区管理景观,以便在不需要任何直接种植树木的情况下,幼苗自然会在可能充满草和灌木丛的区域中再生。随着天然树种的生长,该项目可能会在50年内估计估计有120万吨二氧化碳。苏格兰的一个项目正在帮助恢复农场的土著林地,在继续运作的同时创造了新的收入来源。在马达加斯加,有200多名工人获得了公平的工资,以种植数百万棵树木,巡逻森林和打击森林大火。大多数项目将在下一个播种季节发生,非营利性合作伙伴会发送有关树木生存,其他生态系统益处以及对当地生计的影响的持续报告。
In every case, the projects have to be more attractive for local communities than the alternatives. “Making it economically viable for the farmers is really key,” Scher says. “We want to make sure that you can get as much money for growing and conserving and restoring trees as you can from cutting them down and selling them to paper mills.”
该公司还与Pachama等初创公司合作,这使得变得更加容易track changes in forests through remote sensing, and Dendra Systems, whichrestores ecosystems via drone。一个称为的平台上行链路与世界经济论坛合作创建的,分享了一些在森林恢复业务中创新的初创公司。Salesforce希望帮助其他公司更容易实施类似的计划。他说:“要达到全球目标,这将需要大量的提升和很多人。”
Salesforce通过慈善补助金为前1000万棵树木提供了资金,但是随着它继续朝着1亿个目标努力,其中一些总数将来自其自身的碳补偿。该公司计划在明年之前使用100%的可再生能源,首先达到零碳排放量,这意味着它在几年前就购买了尚未消除的任何排放的偏移。
Correction:我们已经更新了这篇文章,以指出Salesforce仅资助澳大利亚30,000棵树的种植(尽管整个项目仍将种植150,000棵)。