In May 2018, the government’s official advisory body, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), recommended that the UK set a legally binding target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. The CCC’s report acknowledged that reducing emissions to zero would be challenging and spell the end to petrol and diesel cars, as well…
With a little bit of help from my friends We all need a little help form our friends, and trees are no exception. Did you know they form a ‘marriage’ with soil living fungi? (These fungi are called mycorrhizal fungi) The fungi are much better than the tree at taking up plant nutrients from the…
Here is an interesting read Ancient tree with record of Earth’s magnetic field reversal in its rings discovered in New Zealand The kauri tree, found in New Zealand, lived over 40,000 years ago.https://t.co/3AYHzHtApf — Nayef Al-Rodhan (@SustainHistory) October 3, 2019
From humble beginnings…. PATT Foundation is celebrating it’s 15th birthday, and all we want are trees. The seed was sown in Thailand when we first supplied 500 fruit and teak trees to an orphanage, and since then, we haven’t stopped. Take a look back through the archives at our first ever tree-planting day in Sanklaburi,…
On 24 October, PATT CEO, Andrew Steel will be joining the “big hearted business community” who are pledging their support to CEO Sleepout, Hull. CEO Sleepout is a charity set up to fight homelessness and poverty in communities across the UK with CEOs, directors and community leaders joining forces to pledge to sleep outdoors for…
Plantation project funded by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Worli, Mumbai was again the location for another tree plantation organized jointly by PATT Foundation, SAGE foundation and Royal Bank of Scotland. Royal Bank of Scotland funded a plantation of 100 trees in which 25 were planted on the promenade opposite Sacred Heart High School and a…
Merck and PATT tree plantation in 3 Indian states At Plant a Tree Today we have worked extensively in Asia, and this project from our archives relates to a project we ran in three Indian states. The pharmaceutical organisation Merck worked along side us in Three Indian states on the 10th October 2010 in a hugely…
Doi Mae Salong Project Project Overview The project was funded through a grant from the Waterloo Foundation in the UK. The project was a partnership between PATT, IUCN, and FORRU who were working with Thailand’s Supreme Command Office (SCO) in the sustainable implementation and management of the restoration of degraded forest in the Doi Mae Salong area of Chiang Rai in Thailand’s far north. 48,000…
Ratchaburi with Standard Chartered Bank The central aim of this project was to reforest unproductive land at various locations around Thailand increasing habitats for wildlife, prevention of erosion and to increase local access to forest products. Main goals of the project: Regenerate a degraded area with native trees Rebuild a natural forest by planting trees suitable…
Standard Chartered Bank plants 10,000 trees in Sri Lanka with PATT We have been offering a green your flights package for many years, and this project involved working with Standard Chartered Bank’s “Green Your Flights” campaign. A number of local volunteers from the bank planted 1,000 trees in Sri Lanka. SCB donated 10,000 trees to…