UTOI | Urban Tree Offset Initiative

UTOI | Urban Tree Offset Initiative is a non-profit organization that operates a carbon credit program using existing established trees in cities. Our vision is to protect nature, mitigate climate change and adapt to climate change using the trees we have in our cities. Climate change is humanity’s most pressing problem. If we do not combat it, all other values and pleasures will become irrelevant. Our education, wealth, and beauty will have no meaning. Big trees in cities are an unused tool to fight climate change and are disappearing from our settlements. The bigger the tree, and the more it grows, the more it adds to mitigating climate change through carbon storage and sequestration, and adapting to it, e.g., by cooling the environment. In doing so, it is relatively easy to preserve them and encourage them to grow to their maximum potential. Measures to promote growth are known and proven. These include watering, improving the soil in the root zone, limiting the influence of harmful organisms, and many others.