Action For Our Planet

The Canopy Project™

Through The Canopy Project™, we have planted more than 3.6 million saplings across India over the last decade, advancing afforestation, reforestation, agroforestry and large-scale mangrove restoration. Across our projects, women and local communities play a central role in planting and long-term tree care—reviving biodiversity, strengthening climate resilience and turning ecological restoration into lasting community opportunity.

We regularly gift fruit-tree saplings to environmentally and economically vulnerable communities. These include Saklana village in Tehri Garhwal, where landslides destroyed extensive orchards; water-scarce Lalitpur in Bundelkhand; and Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, one of India's most chronically drought-prone districts. The mature trees help families improve nutrition, build future income sources, and restore degraded land.

Environmental and Climate Education

Environmental and climate literacy are central to our work. From the early school years, our programmes help students understand environmental challenges, think critically, make informed choices, and participate in solutions.

Our student initiatives transform environmental learning into creative action. Morning Assembly invites students to present original Earth Day activities through theatre, debate, poetry, music, demonstrations, folk traditions and technology. Shared with approximately 1,00,000 schools annually, it encourages participation across government, private, rural, urban and international schools.

Earth Reel enables students to research environmental issues, develop screenplays and communicate their findings through films in English and regional languages. Earth Murals turns school walls and shared spaces into powerful visual messages for the planet.

Climate Clock assemblies enable students to assemble and display clocks in their institutions that count down the critical time remaining to prevent irreversible climate change, making the urgency for action visible.

Eco-Comics workshops, led by some of India's best-known cartoonists, teach students to communicate complex environmental issues and solutions through engaging illustrated stories.

We also support educators with practical approaches that make learning engaging, actionable and relevant to local realities. Through teacher-training workshops, educators learn to integrate climate and environmental concepts across subjects using interactive methods, creative activities and locally relevant examples. Our adaptable learning resources support different age groups, subjects and learning environments.

Together, these programmes help students progress from climate learning to creativity, action and environmental leadership.

Cleanups and Circularity

Through The Great Global Cleanup®, we mobilise volunteers and partners to remove waste from beaches, rivers, lakes, neighbourhoods and other shared spaces—including along the Ganga from Devprayag to Ganga Sagar, Mumbai's Juhu Beach, Dal Lake and other locations across India.

Our work goes beyond cleanups. In alignment with Mission LiFE, we help children and communities adopt habits that prevent waste, discourage littering and promote responsible consumption. In collaboration with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), one of India's largest civic bodies, we developed engaging educational material for schoolchildren featuring Nivaran Dadi, the official mascot of MCD's anti-plastic campaign. The campaign encouraged citizens to reduce plastic use and help make Delhi plastic-free. We also encourage affordable, biodegradable alternatives to plastic and advance circularity through several initiatives, for example, Bags for Earth, which transforms discarded fabric into reusable bags, alongside school-based e-waste collection and plastic-recycling initiatives.

Women

We empower women with knowledge, skills and opportunities to strengthen climate resilience, livelihoods and leadership. Our programmes reach women farmers, rural communities and elected panchayat representatives, focusing on climate-smart decisions, renewable energy, financial literacy and management capabilities.

We equip first-time farm managers with practical tools and networks to adopt sustainable agricultural practices and improve income security. Through The Canopy Project, women support mangrove restoration while creating livelihoods and protecting vulnerable ecosystems. Our Women and the Green Economy (WAGE) campaign advances women's leadership and governance in the transition to a greener, more inclusive economy.