This is how it works:

In every EU country we will collaborate with local organizations that specialize in planting (and maintaining) trees. We take The Netherlands as an example.

In The Netherlands an organization called Staatsbosbeheer is responsible for planting and maintaining forests.

This local partner sets up a new project for tree planting, funded by the EU. The partner shares the project details (the amount of trees, the location, the species) with 3billiontrees.

3billiontrees is collecting the information and provides the 3billiontrees ‘stamp’ to the project. This means that the trees for that particular project will be counted as a part of the 3 billion in total.

In every country we are working with the local organizations to exchange the project information for the 3billiontrees ‘stamp’. Over the years we see the tree count per country and for the EU in total grow until we reach indeed the 3 BILLION!

*the count above is only for visualization purposes and is not representing real numbers or including all EU countries