Who is Climaton?

Climaton is a platform that enables conservation enthusiast individuals and companies globally to plant trees online with a mere click. From the platform, you can:

  • Access a dashboard of your tree planting statistics.
  • Plant trees for yourself or your business.
  • View and download tree planting certificates generated for trees planted.
  • Track your tree planting numbers and share them with your various stakeholders.
  • Watch your forest grow as you fund more trees to be planted.

What does Climaton offer?

Climaton has two different offerings, one for businesses and the other for individuals.

For individuals, Climaton enables anyone to plant trees from any location in the world with a mere click. You can discover our planting activities across Africa, decide where to plant your trees, and follow the growth of your trees via a dedicated dashboard.

Climaton also enables businesses across the world to reach their tree planting CSR goals, showcase their environmental commitments to stakeholders, and absorb their carbon footprint by planting trees across Africa. Are you looking to become carbon neutral? Grow your own company trees and forest? Or simply have an environmental impact via tree planting? Get in touch here: contact@climaton.net

Why did we create Climaton?

Climaton was created to make tree planting activities by global citizens and companies reliable, cost-effective, transparent, and simple. Existing tree planting initiatives often suffer from a lack of transparency and accountability, making it challenging for companies to ensure that their funding is being utilized effectively and that the intended impact is being achieved. Our platform 100% cures this problem. By a mere click, you can plant over 1000 trees with a 98% survival rate.

Why should I choose Climaton to plant my trees?

Climaton is creating a movement that recognizes our collective responsibility for protecting planet Earth and understands that every tree planted is another step towards combating climate change, preserving biodiversity, reducing poverty, and safeguarding future generations.

We want to make tree planting cost-effective and easy to integrate into everyday life, whether planting as an individual or business.

What’s the Journey of my Trees?

  • Tree Nursery (The Seeds): Climaton operates with carefully selected local partners on the ground for tree planting operations. In each location, tree nurseries are established to plant and grow seedlings into saplings.
  • Sapling Selection: Sapling trees are selected out of the nursery and prepared for distribution to planting locations. A sapling is roughly 20 to 40 cm in size and is planted during the appropriate local planting season—mostly during rainy seasons.
  • Planting: During the rainy season, your trees are planted in designated planting sites you selected. Each tree is photographed and geo-tagged by capturing the trees’ or forest’s GPS location. After roughly 1 to 2 months, each site is re-visited by a tracker, capturing each planted tree.
  • Impact Dashboard: You receive an impact Dashboard profile, displaying impact metrics and total trees planted and tracked over time.

How does Climaton ensure the trees that are planted are protected?

Climaton goes beyond simply allocating money for tree planting. We work closely with local communities to showcase the immense value newly planted trees and restored forests bring to their regions and families. Through education and empowerment, we find local communities quickly develop a deep sense of ownership and pride over their trees, leading to effective management over the long-term, keeping all planted trees not just alive, but thriving.

How do I get started?

  1. Sign up to the platform for free.
  2. Check through our range of tree seedlings in our inbuilt e-commerce system and choose the tree species you’d like to plant. You can choose from a single tree or tree kits.
  3. Decide where you want to plant – choose from our listed project locations.
  4. Decide who you want to plant for – whether for yourself, or gift a tree to others.
  5. Complete your tree planting process via our seamless payment integration.
  6. Check your email for a confirmation email.
  7. Follow your trees via a dedicated dashboard.

What does our tree planting price include?

All the prices quoted for tree seedlings include the following:

  • Selection & production of certified seedlings ensuring best practices.
  • Distribution of seedlings to farmers and overseeing the planting process.
  • Maintenance of the plant until it provides an income to the farmer.
  • Training of farmers on the best agroforestry and related tree planting practices.
  • Replacing the failed trees during the first years of planting.
  • Recording of the tree's GPS coordinates and photo monitoring.
  • Bi-annual sample checks on tree growth to verify the permanence of trees and good health.
  • Seedling watering until 100% survival if planted off rainy seasons.
  • Periodic tree/forest updates, with a focus on environmental benefits, published on your profile.
  • Digital Certificate specific to all the trees you’ve planted.

Is there a minimum spend?

There’s no minimum spend required; you can plant trees as and when you’d like.

How is tree pricing determined?

Pricing is affected by labor, local resources, infrastructure, size of the projects, and distance of the planting site from the tree nursery. Our goal is to plant as many trees for the environment as possible, while still ensuring maximum viability and impact. With that goal in mind, we do not mark up the tree purchase costs more than is necessary and pass those savings benefits on to our customers.

Can I see where my trees are planted?

We send quarterly newsletters and impact metrics specific to your trees, updating you on the progress of our projects, as well as sharing the exact GPS location coordinates of your trees – feel free to look them up on Google Maps.

Who plants my trees?

All your trees will be planted by our dedicated network of smallholder farmers whom we train on tree planting best practices. All your forest trees will be planted and nurtured by our network of incentivized youth groups we partner with across all our tree planting projects. These youth groups reside closer to tree planting sites across our projects.

How do you vet your tree planting partners?

Extremely thoroughly. We heavily research every partner we work with to ensure:

  • They are planting the trees and have reliable methods for accounting for seeds, saplings, and trees planted.
  • They’re planting trees in a way to maximize survival rates (e.g., only planting indigenous tree species and planting in the right seasons).
  • They’re making a positive impact in the local community (e.g., educating locals, planting agroforestry trees, supporting different projects). We only partner with projects you’d be happy to support.

What is the survival rate of your trees?

Our projects range from an 85-98% survival rate depending on the project location. We work with our tree planting partners to plant trees as quickly as the planting seasons allow, to give them the maximum chances of survival.

How does tree planting capture and store carbon?

Trees absorb carbon dioxide through the process of photosynthesis – absorbing CO2 from the air, releasing oxygen, and locking up the carbon until the end of the tree’s life. While all plants absorb carbon dioxide, trees absorb significantly more because of their size, roots, and average lifespan.

How much carbon does a tree capture?

The amount of carbon each tree captures depends on the tree type, location, and life. We plant a mix of 10 tree species. Each tree captures various amounts of carbon over its lifetime (which ranges based on tree species). Each tree species enlisted on our platform includes CO2 levels to be absorbed by the tree annually.

When will my trees be planted upon payment?

We plant all trees during major rainy seasons based on our tree planting project location across Africa to ensure high survival rates. All the trees paid for shall be aggregated and planted at the same time, where you’ll receive a real-time update email once your trees have been planted. You will be able to track the status of your trees via a dedicated dashboard on your account.

How can I keep track of my impact?

In your Climaton account, you can see the impact made with the trees you’ve planted in your dashboard.

Is Climaton a not-for-profit organization?

Climaton is a for-profit business. We work with tree planting NGOs across Africa to fund the purchase of seeds, operate nurseries, conduct planting work, provide training to the local farmers, and protect the planting site to ensure a high survival rate—all this is made possible by the tree purchases you make.

Can I partner with you?

Yes – if you plant trees with Climaton and sign up for an account, you will have access to our partner resources support benefits, which include creating partnership posts and supporting your tree planting and CSR communications.