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Cool Earth: the organisation championing the relationship between people, rainforest and climate.
The Global Good Awards supports the work of Cool Earth in several ways throughout the year by donating 1% of all turnover from sponsorship, entry fees and ticket sales, a £5 or £10 donation per paying entry to protect a tree or plant an Inga Bean and, finally, we help to protect rainforest canopies via their carbon capture projects to match the emissions from our event that we aren’t able to remove.
Currently, we expect to be donating in the region of £4000 to Cool Earth, as a result of the 2023 awards season; this means we (and you!) have managed to DOUBLE our 2022 donation – so THANK YOU for helping us to hit that target!
Cool Earth is a charitable organisation that collaborates with communities to reduce deforestation and its heavy impact on climate change.
Established in 2007, Cool Earth assists in leveraging local and indigenous wisdom to devise optimal strategies for tackling forest-related hazards, simultaneously empowering communities to thrive. Protecting carbon-rich forest is key to averting climate change. Cool Earth is actively engaged in preserving rainforests within the three major tropical biomes across the globe, encompassing Peru, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Cameroon, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Here at the Global Good Awards, we ‘ve been supporting Cool Earth for four years, and are genuinely humbled by the great projects and initiatives that they facilitate, which is why we wanted take this opportunity to shout about some of their highlights from the past few months.
Let’s begin with a project being carried out in the Amazonas region of Peru, where a staggering 50% of children and adolescents stop attending school for either economic reasons, or lack of support from their families. A Cool Earth initiative is now working with locals, to give them the necessary knowledge to harvest cacao, providing a much needed source of sustainable income – and enabling them to educate their families.
“We have changed our families and how we made cacao. They saw how it is pruned, how it is cared for, how it is taught. Some engineers who came before wanted to teach us how cacao works, but they had never taught us like Cool Earth taught us before. Now we need to buy more pruners”
Néstor, cacao farmer, and father to eleven sons and daughters
You can read more about the initiative here.
Next up is a project that sees Cool Earth team up with 600 of the Awajún Indigenous people who inhabit the town of Huaracayo in Peru – together they have formed a brigade of forest monitors, as part of the Rainforests Labs project. The primary objective of this team is to safeguard and enhance the stewardship of its territory, encompassing over 1800 hectares of forest that faces imminent threats from activities such as unauthorised timber harvesting, forest fires, and encroachment on land ownership.
As part of the Rainforest Labs project, all the forest monitors have received technological tools and are in the process of training and support to monitor the Huaracayo forest through satellite images.
“We want to take care of the forest to maintain the environment so that it is good (…). The forest and large trees take care of the virgins [sacred spirits] and the purmas [lands never invaded]. The biggest trees bring us wind and water. That’s why here we don’t need water to irrigate, it permanently rains and with that water we irrigate. That’s why we take care of the forest.“
Abelardo, one of six monitors leading the project
You can read more about the project here.
To find out more about Cool Earth, and how you can support the brilliant work they’re doing, please visit their website here.
