How trees can help you achieve UN’s 17 sustainable development goals

Oxyflora Biotech | PTC lab | New Delhi, India

4 min readNov 18, 2022

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United Nation 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Introduction

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as Global Goals, are a set of 17 integrated and interrelated goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that humanity enjoys peace and prosperity by 2030.

Ever since in 2015 UN established a set of sustainable development goals to help businesses to build a more sustainable world.

It is very surprising to note that 1 opportunity stands a potential to impact all 17 sustainable development goals i.e., LAND RESTORATION

How land restoration will help you achieve all 17 UN SDG’s

No Poverty: Almost 3 billion people live below poverty line & depends entirely on the productive land for their livelihood. Solid foundation for healthy, well managed forests, watersheds and soil health is required for any efforts to eradicate poverty — Productive Lands are key to no poverty

Zero Hunger: Restoring degraded forests, planting trees, and promoting sustainable agriculture through agroforestry in agricultural areas. This is a key driver of global hunger and food insecurity — Sustainable Agriculture will give nutrition abundance to masses

Good Health & Wellbeing: Plants provide traditional remedies and key ingredients in 25% of all western medicines. Planting trees cleans up the air we breathe, green cover reduces mental health ( heard about forests bathing ) and provide high quality supplies of food and water over time — Plants provide both mental and physical wellbeing

Quality Education: Dense green cover helps local communities economically and culturally, by bringing tourism , providing jobs and reducing the time spent on securing basic necessities like food and fuelwood. This gives parents more time and money to educate their children — Households gets more time & money to educate their children

Gender Equality: Reforestation by planting trees empowers women by
increasing their access to quality nutrition and improving their overall food security. Helping communities to restore their local landscape helps to increase their family income with agroforestry crops — Not only men, but women can also contribute to their family wellbeing

Clean Water & Sanitation: Due to linkages between land management & water cycle role played by trees in capturing, restoring and retaining water is very important — Green lands for a good water cycle is essential

Affordable & Clean Energy: Reforestation can always help in healing the land
degradation impact of mining for coal, gas and petroleum based fuels — Grow plants to earn carbon credits to offset carbon emission

Decent Work and Economic Growth: Human economies and societies have flourished on the back of healthy ecosystems that provide good food, fuel
and clean water to function. Reforestation directly (or indirectly) generates jobs and economic activity which have profound impact on the local communities — Healthy Eco systems generate jobs and economic activities

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: A healthy forest & the land which is managed and restored minimizes natural calamities like flooding, landslides, dust storms and other threats. Degrading land burdens new and existing infrastructure by shortening its life span & increasing overall maintenance costs — Environmental threats are detrimental for all — living or non-living

Reduced Inequalities: Backward communities cut down forests for fuelwood,
hunt wildlife for food, and clear land for agriculture. Tree plantation restores the land making it more productive and increasing income. Thus reducing the
need to migrate to more fertile land — Staying at one place for generations helps to build better communities

Sustainable Cities & Communities: Planting trees can help to restore important ecosystem services in urban and suburban areas like food, water, energy, and raw building materials. Improvement in water, soil, and air quality, environmental risks and impacts like flash floods, respiratory illnesses etc. are reduced — Planting trees is important for overall being of humans

Responsible Consumption & Production: Reforestation and forest science have key roles to play in developing more sustainable ways to produce and extract agricultural goods, forest products, energy, and minerals from the land. — Agro forestry science & horticulture is the key to sustainable production

Climate Action: A mature tree can absorb an average of 22lbs of CO2
per year. Tree plantation helps to revitalize vital ecosystems & minimize the effect to control climate change helps buying people & the govt. to adapt to a
sustainable living — Green Action is Climate Action

Life below water: Restoring the land through tree plantation reduces the
pressure on underwater ecosystems as it prevents surface run offs, sediment flows and other atmospheric emissions as terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems are interconnected — Tree Plantation helps to main the right water cycle

Life on Land : Clean air to breathe, good quality & nutritious food to
eat & clean drinking water are just some of the reasons why tree plantation improves the quality of life on land for humans wellbeing. Healthy forests = happy people ! — Plants provide both mental and physical wellbeing to all life on land

Partnerships for the Goal: Reforestation can foster partnerships between
organizations and governments, allowing local initiatives to be scaled up to regional, national, and so on — When rural and urban communities unite — miracle happens for the country

Land restoration by tree plantation has a ripple effect of benefits across all the 3 areas i.e. economic, environmental and social

When it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR), tree planting is surely one of the most efficient methods for companies to achieve their goals.

If you’re not already thinking about how important trees are to your brand’s image, here are few reasons why:

Boost Morale: Show employees, investors & customers a positive impact.

2. Revitalize vital ecosystem: Bringing life to land

3. Show that you care: A tangible, transparent & a genuine way to make a difference.

4. Restore: Soil & land; Cleans air, food & water

5. Help local communities: Economically & Culturally by bringing back tourism & jobs

How can we help you to achieve your CSR strategy

High Quality Lab Grown Plant: Plant breeding helps us to carry the good quality traits such as biotic & abiotic stress resistant plants to next generation, thus increasing the survivability of the plants grown in your CSR project with best pricing.

A Network of 200+ Farms & Nurseries: Since we supply plants to over 200+ medium & small-scale farms across India, we boast to have the required manpower to get the job done in a right way.

From Planning to Execution: Every land restoration project is different, which depends on land’s history, conditions, potential uses and its impact to the local nearby community. We help you achieve the best outcome out of your CSR budget

We are a commercial scale plant tissue culture lab based out in Delhi NCR with

25 lakh+ Annual plant production

10 acres farmland for growing plants

A team of 50+ scientists & PTC Experts

Join our mission to neutralize 1000 Tonnes of CO2 in next 5 Yrs

How trees can help you achieve UN’s 17 sustainable development goals

Introduction

How land restoration will help you achieve all 17 UN SDG’s

How can we help you to achieve your CSR strategy

Written by Oxyflora Biotech | PTC lab | New Delhi, India