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Cooperation with Plant-for-the-Planet

Sustainable and long-term commitment

The Cologne Chocolate Museum will be climate-neutral from this year onwards. With concrete measures such as the use of green electricity, biodegradable packaging, the decommissioning of CO2 emission rights and support for a reforestation project in Mexico, the museum is achieving a positive climate balance.

The Chocolate Museum has entered into a partnership with the children’s and youth initiative “Plant-for-the-Planet”. In Mexico, Plant-for-the-Planet plants a new tree every 15 seconds. The project shows how easy it is to plant trees efficiently on a large scale. In future, the Chocolate Museum will work with Plant-for-the-Planet to plant 33,300 trees every year. In 2019 and 2020, this will take place in Constitution on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. This significant overcompensation ensures that the Cologne Chocolate Museum has a permanently positive carbon footprint, removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it emits.

Planting area on the Yucatan Peninsula

Where land was left to run wild years ago, more than three million trees are now growing to help us fight the climate crisis. The donated trees are planted on 22,500 hectares of fallow land. Around 5,500 trees are added every day.

Plant-for-the-Planet App

Plant-for-the-Planet pursues the goal of planting 1,000 billion trees worldwide together with all people. To make this easy and fun, the young people from Plant-for-the-Planet have developed an app. Anyone can become active immediately and support tree planting worldwide: Download the Plant-for-the-Planet app, select the “e-forest” project under “Donate trees”, donate the desired amount – and the corresponding number of trees will be planted. You can also register trees you have planted in your own garden or challenge friends and work colleagues to a planting competition.

Academy as an ambassador for climate justice

Plant-for-the-Planet has been training schoolchildren on all continents to become ambassadors for climate justice for many years. Together with the Imhoff Foundation, the Chocolate Museum enables up to 540 children between the ages of 10 and 12 to receive this training: 180 in Cologne and 360 elsewhere in the world.