This girl is serious when she say she has a plan to fight climate change: she want to plant a billion trees in Paris alone, on the way to planting a trillion trees around the world.
She is part of an international youth organization known as Plant-for-the-Planet. Their program is to plant a trillion trees and move to 100 percent renewables by 2050. Anything less, they say, will shortchange them of a right to a secure and happy future.
Now they’re coming to COP21, to be “Climate Ambassadors” by promoting a “Plant-for-the-Planet” project.
Forget Superman! Real heroes do not have laser vision and wear spandex suits, but instead they perform photosynthesis. Trees use this process to change CO2 into clean air for breathing. Sounds complicated? It is! Trees are simply super. Only one thing they are not: yummy. That is why they created the Change Chocolate. They use money to plant so many trees that the production process of each chocolate bar is completely carbon neutral. The bars have even more super powers: the chocolate is fair trade, so that the cocoa farmers also get their fair share. Of course, the chocolate is intensely chocolaty and delicious!
Naturally, children like to eat chocolate. Who doesn’t? However, during the production of a regular 100g bar of chocolate, 300g of harmful CO2 are also produced, and the cocoa farmers often do not receive a fair wage. Consequently, their children have to help out with the harvest, instead of going to school like we do. This inspired the group to put their own chocolate on the market. According to the children’s wishes, each product is fair trade and carbon neutral. First of all they found a manufacturer of excellent Swiss chocolate who wanted to support them and was willing to forego their profits: Chocolats Halba. Owing to the support of Pur Projet, we have experts on hand, who help the cocoa farmers grow precious wood.
This way, the farmers can receive a wage which meets fair trade standards and can increase their earnings even more further through the sale of the precious wood. The sustainable cultivation of precious wood offsets CO2 emissions, which are released during the production process of the chocolate. Because this chocolate brings about so much change, they have named it the Change Chocolate. Very quickly, the first retailers started to included their chocolate in their product range. So far, they have sold a total of over 2 million chocolate bars.
The Change Chocolate on Facebook.
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