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20 the hub 01/2013 E N V I R O N M E N TA L N E W S Konica Minolta South Africa’s 17,678 trees counterbalance carbon emissions >>> In line with its promise to run its business in the most sustainable way – from an environmental, social and economic perspective - Konica Minolta South Africa (KMSA) has been supporting South Africa’s national greening and food gardening social enterprise, Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA), for five years and has most recently planted in excess of 2,000 trees at impoverished schools in the Cape Town and Paarl regions. Wavecrest Primary School learners This brings the total number of trees donated by KMSA to 17,678 and illustrates its vow to taking proactive steps against global warming. According to KMSA employees, Carol Harris, Cape Town branch secretary and Peter Gdanis, Paarl branch manager, FTFA selected Caravelle Primary School, Hillside Primary School, Wavecrest Primary School, Eisleben Road Primary School, Mboniselo Primary School and Langabuya Primary School to be the recipients of the indigenous and fruit trees. KMSA employees got thoroughly involved with the planting of the trees. Thereafter, the trees became the responsibility of the teachers, learners and caretakers – however, KMSA remain involved, both with the schools and the community. The main purpose of indigenous or fruit trees is to provide shade for the school children, to sit and play beneath during the hot summer months – as well as their guardians as they wait to fetch the children. They will of course also beautify the school and its surroundings. The partnership with FTFA began in 2008 when Konica Minolta South Africa contributed 4,100 trees to Orange Farm, a large informal settlement located approximately 45 kilometres from Johannesburg. As a result of the success of the project and the need to offset more carbon dioxide emissions, KMSA committed to planting further trees in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Western Cape regions.
Learners at Hillside Primary School wear their hats made from recyclable materials to the tree planting ceremony. The 17,678 trees have been distributed through FTFA’s Trees for Homes initiative, a registered carbon offset programme under the Carbon Protocol of South Africa. By taking travel, electricity and paper usage into account, the FTFA online carbon calculator provides a high level estimation of a company’s annual carbon footprint as well as the number of trees it will take to absorb that amount of carbon. Konica Minolta South Africa is taking proactive steps against global warming by planting trees at impoverished schools. During the recent planting at the schools in Cape Town and Paarl, the gratitude and respect shown by the various principals, teachers and learners was evident. It also highlighted the importance of mother nature. “As part of our corporate social investment initiative, we have committed to the FTFA Carbon Offset programme in an effort to further offset our carbon emissions and one of the best ways to do this is by planting trees. In addition to absorbing carbon dioxide, one of the most important green house gases, these trees provide many other environmental and social benefits such as preventing water runoff and erosion, settling the dust, providing shade and shelter, lessening noise and beautifying neighbourhoods,” says Alan Griffith, managing director, Konica Minolta South Africa. This initiative has proven to be so successful, that KMSA has, in fact, reached carbon neutral status. The trees will also be registered with the United Nations Billion Tree programme, which already has 10 billion trees registered, which amounts to more than one tree for each person on the planet. the hub 01/2013 21
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