Reduce your carbon footprint

Throughout your life

Discover our A Forest for my Life programme and easily offset the impact of your whole life!

As a company

It’s very complicated to succeed in reducing our impact while maintaining the imperatives of a business. That’s why we propose options to compensate for what can not be reduced economically or materially.

Calculate your impact

How many trees do you think you’ll need to plant to offset your impact?

Graine de vie in numbers

More than
57 million
trees planted in 7 African countries since
our creation in 2009

144
tree species planted

896
reforestation sites

21
protection and
and restoration
of national parks

More than
100.000
people reached per year

1500
jobs created in Africa and 25 active volunteers in Europe

Why plant trees

In an ideal world, the solution would be to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to 0.
In fact, we encourage you to do lots of little things in your daily life to move in this direction (see all our tips on this subject). Even so, having no carbon footprint is impossible.
One of the best solutions is to plant trees. We’ll tell you why!

Find out where we are active

A forest for my life!

5,760 trees to be planted to capture 800 tonnes of CO2 for a total sum of €2,880, that’s €20 a month or €250 a year for 20 years to offset the ecological footprint of my entire life.

The average cost of a tree planted by Graine de Vie is €0.50.

Our latest news

Benin’s National Tree Day

Graine de Vie celebrated Benin’s National Tree Day in collaboration with the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC). Under the impetus of Rector Avlessi and with the support of the Rectorate’s sanitation department, the administrative staff…
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