9. Track your impact

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Step 9: Track your impact

The Impact section of your forest profile provides a clear and engaging summary of your reforestation efforts, environmental contributions, and social impacts. This section is a valuable tool for showcasing the tangible results of your commitment to sustainability. Here's how it works and how you can maximize its effectiveness.

Access your Impact section

From the User menu, click on your forest: 
Once on your forest, access your Impact section by clicking on My Impact tab.

What Is the Impact Section

The Impact section is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the results of your tree-planting efforts. It includes:

1. Environmental Impact:

   • CO2 Sequestration: The total amount of carbon dioxide your forest is expected to offset.

   • Trees Planted: The sum of all the trees you've plantedA running total of the trees you’ve contributed to planting.

   • Trees Influence: A running total of the trees you’ve contributed to planting indirectly, thanks to your positive influence. Learn more in Tree influence article. 

   • Biodiversity Benefits: Details on how your forest supports local ecosystems by creating habitats for wildlife.

2. Social Impact:

   • Jobs Created: Information on how your forest supports local communities by creating sustainable jobs.

   • Community Benefits: Details on how reforestation improves the quality of life for local populations, such as providing resources like fruit or fuel.

3. Forest Details:

   • Specific data about the species of trees planted, their geographical location, and their ecological significance.

Why Is the Impact Section Important

For Individuals:

The Impact section lets you visualize the real-world effects of your contributions. Seeing metrics like CO2 offset and trees planted connects your efforts to the planet’s well-being.

For Organizations:

If you’re using Tree-Nation as part of a corporate sustainability initiative, this section serves as a powerful tool for stakeholder communication. It helps you:

• Build Trust: Demonstrate measurable results to your customers, employees, and investors.

• Promote Your Brand: Share your positive environmental and social contributions on your website, newsletters, or social media.

• Inspire Action: Encourage others to join your sustainability efforts by highlighting your achievements. 

Share your impact achievements

Your Forest Impact is more than just numbers—it’s a testament to your commitment to the planet and its people.

You can share your impact in many ways:

1. Install our Certification label into your site to bring your sustainability impact to all your stakeholders.
2. Also, use the share button to periodically report the evolution of your impact on social medias.
3. Include a link to your Forest in your email signature, presentations, or marketing materials.
4. Download your Impact data report
   

   You can download a Quarterly report of your Forest Impact. Feel free to share it with your Stakeholders. (For Subscribed user only).

   If you have a Premium or Enterprise subscription you can define the report date range.

Understanding the data

• The Impact page provides dynamic data: the information in this section updates in real time as new trees are planted.
• Your Forest Impact data (including tree count, CO2 values and biodiversity markers) is backed by our FOUNDATION Certification standard. Click on the link to learn more about it.
• To have an insight on how we calculate the CO2 values, check our CO2 offset methodology.
• The hectares of reforested land data comes from a calculation based on the tree density (per ha) observed within each project.