As Climate Week NYC concluded, Carrier is proud to announce a significant milestone in its commitment to sustainability and purpose—Enhancing the Lives We Live and the World We Share. Through its collaboration with the Arbor Day Foundation, Carrier will help support the restoration of 290 acres of a northern California forest destroyed by a wildfire in 2021.

 

Employees, customers and members of the public voted to determine Carrier’s final reforestation location for 2025. Participants could choose one tree planting location globally, in either Ireland, Nepal, California or Rwanda. Following a closely matched poll, forestland impacted by the Dixie Wildfire in California was selected as the desired location. More than 89,000 trees will be planted to help restore the area, including pine and fir trees.

 

The Dixie Wildfire raged for a total of 105 days before being fully contained. The environmental toll included more than 963,000 acres of forest burned, severely impacting air quality throughout the West Coast and marking it as the largest single-source wildfire in the state’s history.¹

 

Future Carrier reforestation projects will support the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, the Cauvery River basin in India, England’s community forests, Kenyan farmland and a monarch butterfly habitat in Mexico, among others. These projects are designed to use nature-based solutions to boost air quality levels, revive habitats and enhance climate resilience in regions that have experienced environmental loss.

 

Carrier has pledged to plant 5 million trees by 2030 in high-impact areas of the world and continues to advance its initiative with the Arbor Day Foundation.

 

To learn more, visit www.corporate.carrier.com/corporate-responsibility/social-impact/air-we-breathe/.