Consulting and professional services

Client gifts and staff drives your clients can verify

Give clients a geo-tagged tree, run plantation days for your teams and meet CSR duties where they apply. Every tree is cared for three years.

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85% survival

program-wide, geo-tag verified

400+ companies

plant with us

14 states

across India

Quick answer

What does a consulting or professional services firm need from tree plantation?

Firms set up as companies above the s.135 thresholds must spend 2% of average net profit on CSR. Under the CCPA's 2024 greenwashing guidelines, environmental claims must be backed by credible evidence. So professional firms need plantation that works as client gifting and staff engagement, and that holds up when a client checks the claim.

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Real programmes, in our clients' own words.

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Celebrities and leaders who plant with us

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What we deliver

Services for consulting and services

Planted, cared for for three years and reported on GreenTrack.

Client tree gifts

A geo-tagged tree and certificate for each client, partner or alumnus.

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Staff plantation days

Short city drives for consulting and audit teams, planned around busy seasons.

Employee engagement →

Firm-wide forest pledge

Add a tree for every joiner, promotion or project close, all in one forest.

Forest pledge →

CSR plantation

Three-year CSR projects in urban, Miyawaki or farm forests where s.135 applies.

CSR plantation →

Verifiable records

Tree-level location, species and survival data on GreenTrack to back every claim.

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How a programme works

Five steps, from your goals to reports your CSR, ESG and leadership teams can use.

Goals, sites and budget
Species and planting plan
Planting with our team
Three years of care
GreenTrack reports

What you get

Site and species plan
Geo-tagged trees
Survival checks and replacement
Photos and field records
Reports for CSR and BRSR
Digital forest page

Programmes that fit

Pick the programme that suits your land, region and goals.

Projects across India

Every pin is a project with its own digital forest. Filter by programme or state, or search for a company.

Pins show the approximate area of each project, not exact plot locations. Updated 2026-10-07.

Programmes we have run

How companies planted with us, and what they got.

From the field

Planting, care and growth on our project sites.

Village women planting saplings at a Grow Billion Trees plantation drive

Employees planting and watering saplings at a corporate plantation drive

Corporate team group photo at a Grow Billion Trees plantation site

Freshly dug pits and saplings in rows at a plantation site

Volunteers planting saplings across a large plantation site

Community members kneeling to plant saplings along drip lines

Volunteers planting saplings beside drip irrigation lines

Large group planting trees together at a corporate plantation drive

People planting saplings across an open plantation site

Transparency

Check any tree we planted for you

Every tree we plant is geo-tagged and gets a certificate. Enter a certificate or order number to see it.

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Consulting and professional services: what drives plantation

Consulting, audit, legal, staffing and education firms have no plantation rule of their own. They plant for CSR where s.135 applies, for client relationships and for their people. Many also advise clients on the same rules. The cards below cover each driver.

Driver	What it asks	How plantation helps	Source
CSR spending (Companies Act 2013, s.135)	Companies above ₹500 crore net worth, ₹1,000 crore turnover or ₹5 crore net profit spend 2% of average net profit of three years. A 2026 Bill, still with a Joint Parliamentary Committee, proposes a ₹10 crore profit trigger.	Yes: where your firm is a company above a threshold, a three-year plantation can be a reportable CSR project.	PRS: Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026
BRSR for listed clients (SEBI, 2021)	The top 1,000 listed entities file a BRSR, mandatory from FY 2022-23. Your clients need help preparing it.	Partly: advisers should know plantation sits in environment disclosures, not in energy or emissions totals.	SEBI board memorandum on BRSR, April 2021
Value chain ESG data (SEBI circular, 2025)	Top 250 listed entities report on partners with 2% or more of purchases or sales, voluntarily from FY 2025-26.	Partly: you may be asked for ESG data as a supplier. Plantation records help, but do not replace emissions data.	SEBI circular, 28 March 2025
Green claims (CCPA greenwashing guidelines, 2024)	Environmental claims must be backed by credible evidence. Vague words like 'green' need substantiation.	Partly: geo-tagged trees with survival data back a gifting claim. 'Carbon neutral' claims need far more.	Storyboard18: CCPA greenwashing guidelines
Net-zero commitments (SBTi)	Cut emissions across the value chain, including business travel. Beyond value chain mitigation is not a substitute.	No: trees do not reduce your travel or office emissions. Report plantation as a contribution beyond targets.	SBTi: Beyond Value Chain Mitigation

Gift trees, not hampers

Year-end, Diwali and project-close gifts are a natural fit. A tree gift gives each client a certificate and a geo-tagged tree they can look up.

Keep the claim specific: "a tree planted and cared for three years in your name". That is easier to back up than "we offset your project".

Engage consultants who are rarely in the office

Client-site teams are hard to gather. Short city drives on a weekend, or a firm-wide forest pledge where each joiner or promotion adds a tree, keep everyone included. See employee engagement for formats.

Practise what you advise

If you help clients with BRSR and net zero, your own programme will be read closely. Report trees, sites and survival from GreenTrack, give carbon only as an estimate, and keep it apart from your travel and office emissions.

Questions consulting and services companies ask

Does CSR apply to our firm?

It applies to companies that cross any s.135 threshold: ₹500 crore net worth, ₹1,000 crore turnover or ₹5 crore net profit. Check with your company secretary for your entity structure.

Can we gift a tree to each client?

Yes. Each client gets a certificate and can look up the geo-tagged tree. Each tree is a 2-3 ft sapling cared for three years.

Can we say a client project is carbon neutral because we planted trees?

We advise against it. Trees take years to grow, carbon figures are estimates, and the CCPA's 2024 guidelines expect claims to be backed by evidence. Say how many trees were planted and where.

Our teams work at client sites. How do we include them?

Use weekend city drives, or a forest pledge where milestones add trees. Everyone sees their trees on GreenTrack.

Do trees count toward our net-zero target?

No. Cut travel and office emissions first. Report plantation as a contribution beyond your targets, never as a reduction.

Can you support our clients' programmes too?

Yes. Many advisers bring us in for client CSR and BRSR projects. See plan a programme.

How is a larger programme priced?

Programmes beyond single trees are priced per project after a site survey. The cost estimator gives a starting range.

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