“New quantitative evaluation shows [forest] restoration isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” Prof Tom Crowther, Swiss university ETH Zürich.
Irish SME, Recruiters.ie, is committed to undertaking several important social and environmental initiatives over the coming years. One of their commitments is to plant a forest, one job at a time.
However, the main benefit to the environment is not a hollow promise that ‘trees are planted’, it is when those planted trees are maintained. Recruiters.ie is ensuring they’re maintained and will flourish via Tree Nation’s Eden Project, based in Nepal.
“When a tree is planted in each of our client’s and candidate’s name, they will also receive a certificate that proves it has been planted and also a link to where they can see the maintenance and growth of their tree(s) over 30 years,” says Recruiters.ie’s Managing Director, Gerard Doyle “We’re very proud of our climate action and social initiatives; we’re the only recruitment company in Ireland to offset our website’s CO2 levels through maintained tree planting,” he added.
They chose to partner with the Eden Projects in Nepal because in doing so they are not only contributing to reforestation, but are also contributing to job creation and helping improve local livelihoods of women in particular through fair wage job creation and gender equality in Nepal on a large scale. Something they are very passionate about as recruitment consultants in Ireland and abroad.
Recruiters.ie is taking climate action to enhance the world's natural systems to sequester carbon from the atmosphere with an estimated 3,000 trees planted in a dedicated forest every year.
Recruiters.ie will plant two trees for every job they fill. One on behalf of the successful candidate and one on behalf of the employer they are working with. They plant a tree for every new teammate that joins Recruiters.ie. A tree is also planted for every teammate's work anniversary at Recruiters.ie. They will also plant a sufficient number of trees each year to offset the emissions generated from their website.
Notes to Editors:
Our planet has two lungs — forests and oceans — drawing down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and producing oxygen in turn. However, human activity is changing the effectiveness of our planet’s lungs, which is why Recruiters.ie is committed to protecting and restoring these vital ecosystems. They have also partnered locally with CleanCoasts to actively volunteer their time to clean waterways across Ireland and educate their employees and business network with the importance of ocean sustainability.
Deforestation is one of the main contributors to climate change. Trees are the only machines that (naturally) filter harmful CO2 from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their wood and in the ground.
Today, there are three trillion trees worldwide (down from 6 trillion). Only by protecting them and bringing back another one trillion lost trees can we keep the impact of the climate crisis below the critical 1.5°C or even 2°C limits, as set out at The Paris Agreement (COP21).
“New quantitative evaluation shows [forest] restoration isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” says Prof Tom Crowther of Swiss university ETH Zürich.
“What blows my mind is the scale. I thought restoration would be in the top 10, but it is overwhelmingly more powerful than all of the other climate change solutions proposed.” Crowther continues.
For further information, interview queries or images on this and other initiatives by Recruiters.ie please contact Andrew Sheehan.
