OUR VISION AND MISSION
TROFACO PROVIDE CREDIBLE AND EXCITING CLIMATE ACTION BASED ON TREES THAT ARE PLANTED, GROW AND GIVE BENEFITS TO PEOPLE IN TROPICAL VILLAGES.
TROFACO'S IMPACT
Trees absorb CO2 as they grow. This reduces global warming. TroFaCo plants hundredthousands of trees. Trees also provide living spaces for many animals, and they cool the places where they grow. They can even help increase rainfall.
Local people benefit from the trees. They can eat the fruits or sell them. They can use many kinds of trees as medicine, or feed leaves to the cows or goats. Trees protect the soil and many improve it. And the people get the trees for free, while earning money from planting and weeding.
We only plant trees that are native to the area.
THE TROFACO TEAM
MEET OUR MEMBERS WHO ARE SOLVING DIFFERENT TYPES OF CLIMATE ISSUES AROUND THE WORLD
STEFFEN JOHNSEN
CEO
THOMAS O’BRIEN KIRK
CFO
HUONG LE
Tropical Agronomist, Verification Expert
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
WE PROVIDE CREDIBLE AND EXCITING CLIMATE ACTION BASED ON TREES THAT ARE PLANTED, GROW AND GIVE BENEFITS TO PEOPLE IN TROPICAL VILLAGES.
TONNES CO2 REDUCED
TREES GROWING
TROPICAL VILLAGES
SOME OF OUR PARTNERS
Grow For It
GrowForIt is a voluntary association and network of concerned Danish citizens, started by senior engineers in the wind turbine industry. Private sponsors to GrowForIt compensate for their carbon footprints through TroFaCo. Together we have developed an innovatove offer for citizens of EU who can compensate their lifelong CO2 emissions for 1,000€.
DanChurchAid
DanChurchAid (DCA) is TroFaCo’s first and longest-serving donor/client.
TroFaCo has a long-term agreement with DCA to provide compensation for the CO2 emissions from the staff travels of this large, Danish developmental NGO.
So far this has come to more than 6,000 tonnes of CO2.
DCA selected TroFaCo for its credible approach and reporting as well as its positive impact in the tropical communities.
TroFaCo provides annual reports on climate- and social effects in the areas where trees allocated to DCA are growing, in Cambodia.
Climate KIC
TroFaCo, in its early phases, was supported by Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Information Community) , the EU’s largest public private partnership across sectors and geographies addressing climate change through innovation to build a zero carbon economy. Climate-KIC is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
EADEN
Eastern Archdiocese Development Network is a network of Caritas organisations in Eastern Uganda. TroFaCo and EADEN have a collaboration agreement where EADEN plants trees and TroFaCo provide credible documentation. The large catholic network in Eastern Uganda then reach out to the global catholic community, to initiate collabration in line with Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato ‘Si.
DIS
TroFaCo and DIS collborate on a social project to help local communities to build / rebuild local ecosystems by planting local trees that improve livelihoods and contribute to reforestation.
Danish Institute of Study Abroad (DIS) is a non-profit study abroad foundation established in Denmark in 1959, with locations in Copenhagen and Stockholm. DIS provides programs taught in English, for upper-division undergraduate students from distinguished North American colleges and universities.
180 degrees
180 degrees is a educational program of a large number of business schools. TroFaCo works with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, Kings College in the UK and University of Antwerp in Belgium on development of our marketing and strategic directions for our development. Previously we also worked with Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Action Aid Vietnam
TroFaCo and ActionAid Vietnam (AAV) have entered a strategic agreement to apply the TroFaCo approach in Vietnam. AAV manages local tree planting through their exisiting network, TroFaCo provides technical advice and documentation/verification and both partners do marketing and sales.
CIDI
Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI) is a national NGO in Uganda. It works with disadvantaged communities and has more then 10 years of experience and constant growth. With TroFaCo CIDI works with communities in Rakai (in the South-West of Uganda – where AIDS first started), and in Soroti, a dry area in the North-East, previously ravaged by the ‘Lords Resistance Army’. Since April 2017 CIDI manages the tree plantings sponsored by GrowForIt’s donators.
