Canopy Planet
Canopy Planet is working with the forest industry’s biggest customers and suppliers to develop business solutions that protect the world’s forests.
At A Glance
- Programme: Synchronicity
- Years Funded: 2019
- Ecosystem Focus: Tropical Forest, Temperate Forest
- Species Focus: Plants
- Geographic Focus: International
Canopy Planet is working with the forest industry’s biggest customers and suppliers to develop business solutions that protect the world’s forests.
Canopy Planet works to protect the world’s old-growth forests by collaborating with business leaders, scientists, and decision-makers to create sustainable supply chains and foster innovative solutions to environmental challenges.
Up to 65 per cent of the world’s forests are being felled to manufacture a diverse range of everyday items – from t-shirts to toilet paper. For example, every year, 150 million trees are felled and transformed into rayon and viscose fabric, a figure expected to double in the next decade.
The production processes involved are often highly wasteful; between 60 per cent and 78 per cent of each tree is wasted when producing viscose, at devastating cost to carbon rich forest ecosystems, frontline communities, the global climate, biodiversity, and freshwater ecosystems.
Canopy Planet envisions a world where natural ecosystems are healthy and vibrant, supporting a flourishing diversity of life on Earth. The organisation focusses on cutting-edge campaigns that conserve the world’s endangered forests and advance Indigenous rights by harnessing the power of its brand partners to transform unsustainable supply chains and champion new technologies to reduce industries’ impact and waste.
To date, Canopy Planet has worked with over 750 large corporations – including Marks and Spencer, H&M, Stella McCartney, Penguin Random House, and the Guardian – to develop and implement sustainable sourcing policies.
Canopy Planet is best known for ‘greening’ the Harry Potter book series and contributing to the conservation of Canada’s Great Bear Forest. Over 170 fashion brands, retailers and designers, representing over USD 250 billion in purchasing power, are implementing CanopyStyle commitments to end the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in their clothing and to secure large-scale forest conservation.
Using their innovative approaches, Canopy Planet aims to protect between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of the world’s Ancient and Endangered Forests by 2030, and in doing so help protect human health and stabilise our climate, biodiversity, and freshwater systems.