Grow a lasting legacy for your company

• First, you order your trees! You can fill in our form, specifying your preferred number of trees one-off, every month, every quarter or every year, related to your tree planting initiative. Of course, you can also choose to engage in a virtual conversation with us for a customized approach.
• After we receive your order, we’ll start our processes. We’ll update your impact dashboard and send you the invoice. Once your trees are paid for, we order them with our local partner. Depending on the time of the year, your trees will be growing in our nurseries, getting ready to be planted or we’ll start planting your trees. Updates will appear on your impact dashboard.
• After the planting, we start our period of maintenance. We’ll follow the saplings grow closely in the first years when they are most vulnerable to weather conditions, competing species, pests, and diseases. After 3 to 5 years, our trees are growing steadily and we can reduce the number of controls but we’ll keep an eye out for them to make sure they won’t be cut down! During the period of maintenance, we have several quality checks to make sure all the trees we’ve ordered are growing steadily.
• Read more about it in the FAQ “Questions on the tree-planting”.

• Our climate project experts select the best restoration projects worldwide, usually reforestation, agroforestry, or mangrove projects.
• In Belgium and other European countries, the chosen project locations depend on the availability of privately owned land with motivated owners. Beyond the European borders, the land is usually owned by an environmental NGO or local/indigenous community.
• Trees are needed everywhere, but we always make sure to plant the right trees, in the right regions, with the right people, and using the right methods.

• The duration of maintenance and monitoring period differs from project location to project location. In temperate regions, we usually maintain the trees for 10 years and guarantee monitoring and protection for 30 years. In our tropical regions, we usually maintain the trees for 5 years and execute monitoring and guarding rounds for 10 years.
• Of course we do everything we can to ensure forest health, protection, and survival beyond these fixed periods.

• All of our projects are thoroughly screened. As a part of the selection process, we check which accountability mechanisms are in place locally to guarantee that each tree is planted and well maintained.
• During and after planting, the projects are followed up on a regular basis by the Go Forest team and a team of freelancers who are active in many countries throughout the world. We check our own projects through satellite imagery and schedule regular visits to our projects during which we randomly select plots for tree counting and follow-up.
• Every project is mapped on our impact platform, where the general public can track the growth of the forests, retrieve the exact location of the project, and follow up on the progress measured on the field.
• Still in doubt? Go there and check for yourself!

• No, Go Forest is a social enterprise, a company that operates with the primary goal of creating positive social or environmental impact. While traditional businesses focus primarily on generating profits for their shareholders or owners, social enterprises prioritise addressing social issues, improving communities, or tackling environmental challenges.
• Success at Go Forest is measured not only by financial metrics but foremost by the number of trees we plant, the local income we create, the biodiversity we bring back, and so on.

Completely up to you! The most important thing about your tree planting initiative is honest, authentic communication. We’re thankful for every tree planted! 

If you are looking at concrete guidelines, you can plant in line with your CO2-emissions. For example, a tree in Belgium captures about 175kg of CO2 during its lifetime and a mangrove in Madagaskar about 637kg.

Another guideline you can use is our credibilitree-calculator, which calculates how credible your initiative is through the eyes of consumers. Take into account that this calculation has nothing to do with your emissions, but has been built upon the perception of consumers. 

If you can’t really decide, get in touch to explore the options with us.