South African exporter Fruits Unlimited has planted 204 indigenous trees in the Paarl area of the Western Cape, as part of a carbon-offsetting initiative.
The planting marks the culmination of a nine-month project with Food & Trees for Africa, Fruits Unlimited staff and the local community. Fruits Unlimited director Riël Malan said: “As an exporter [of fruit], climate change is of great concern to us. We are already feeling the effect of an increasingly volatile climate on our business. We started with this project nine months ago, and it gives us great satisfaction to confidently say that the carbon we generate as a business is neutralised through this project.”
The methodology is now being rolled out to Fruits Unlimited producers, packhouses and sister companies, to attempt to have the majority of the group’s products and services carbon neutral by 2012.
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