Retail and e-commerce

A real, geo-tagged tree for every order

Plant a tree per order, purchase or gift and show customers where it grows. We also run CSR forests in the cities and districts where you sell.

Plan a programme What drives plantation

400+ companies plant with us · 85% survival, program-wide · 14 states across India

Planting day handled

Site, saplings, tools and safety

85% survival

program-wide, geo-tag verified

400+ companies

plant with us

14 states

across India

Quick answer

What does a retail or e-commerce company need from tree plantation?

Retailers and D2C brands mostly use plantation for customer campaigns, CSR under Schedule VII and BRSR Principle 6 data. Any 'green' claim to customers must be specific, substantiated and disclosed, as the CCPA greenwashing guidelines of 2024 require. Plantation does not count toward plastic packaging EPR, which covers marketplaces and retail chains.

Trusted by 400+ companies

Companies planting with us

Real programmes, in our clients' own words.

Every Sapling Counts: BAGIC’s Tree Plantation Drive to Give Back to the Planet

How BAGIC Turned Every Employee Into an Environmental Hero

What Happens When L&T’s Engineering Excellence Meets Environmental Responsibility?

How Caterpillar Marked 100 Years by Planting Trees for the Future

Caterpillar Inc. Plants 50,000 Trees That will Inspire Next Generation

The Story & Vision Behind Caterpillar Inc’s “Learning Forests”

How is This CSR Initiative By Group Landmark Helping Farmers?

How One Initiative By Apollo Tyres is Helping Farmers, Nature & the Future

See all corporate films →

Celebrities and leaders who plant with us

Actors, directors and public figures on why they back Grow Billion Trees.

S. S. Rajamouli · a childhood memory grown into a green vision

Rakul & Jackky · a tree for every wedding guest

On Radio One 94.3 · how love for nature grew into a movement

Actor Vishal Gore · 101 trees at Ayodhya on his birthday

See all videos →

What we deliver

Services for retail and e-commerce

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

Tree per order

Plant a geo-tagged tree for each order, product or gift card, with a page customers can visit.

Carbon Neutral Brands →

Client and festive gifting

Trees as gifts for loyal customers, partners and staff, with a certificate for each tree.

Brand gifting →

Urban forests near stores

Miyawaki and community forests in the cities where you run stores and warehouses.

Urban forests →

Farmer agroforestry

CSR agroforestry where farmers keep the fruit and timber income.

See agroforestry →

GreenTrack proof

Geo-tags, photos and survival checks that back your customer and BRSR claims.

About GreenTrack →

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 2026-10-08.

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.

Have a certificate? Check your trees

Enter the number from your certificate or order email.

Retail and e-commerce: what drives plantation

Retailers and D2C brands plant trees mostly for customers, CSR and BRSR. The cards below show where plantation helps, and where a rule needs a different fix.

Driver	What it asks	How plantation helps	Source
Green claims (CCPA Greenwashing Guidelines, 2024)	Terms like 'green', 'eco-friendly' and 'carbon-neutral' need qualifiers and substantiation. Details must be disclosed in the ad or through a QR code or URL. Future claims need clear, actionable plans.	Partly: a tree per order is a fair claim when it is specific and disclosed. It does not make a product 'green' or 'carbon-neutral'.	CCPA Greenwashing Guidelines, 2024
CSR spending (Companies Act 2013, s.135)	Companies with ₹500 crore net worth, ₹1,000 crore turnover or ₹5 crore net profit spend at least 2% of average net profit of three years.	Yes: plantation and agroforestry fall under Schedule VII's environmental sustainability item.	Companies Act s.135 and Schedule VII (Govt of Uttarakhand CSR portal)
BRSR Core and value chain (SEBI, 2025)	Assessment or assurance of BRSR Core reaches the top 1,000 listed companies in FY 2026-27. Value chain disclosures are voluntary for the top 250 from FY 2025-26. A new indicator asks how many green credits were generated or procured.	Partly: plantation data feeds BRSR Principle 6. Trees do not lower the store or warehouse emissions you report.	SEBI circular on BRSR Core, value chain and green credits, 28 Mar 2025
EPR for plastic packaging (Plastic Waste Management Rules, amended 2022)	Brand owners, including online marketplaces and retail chains (micro and small units excluded), register on the CPCB portal and meet EPR targets for plastic packaging.	No: EPR is met through recycling and processing of packaging waste. EPR credits come only from registered processors, not trees.	CPCB FAQs on EPR registration for plastic packaging
Green Credit Programme (MoEFCC, Green Credit Rules 2023)	Green credits for restoring degraded forest land are claimed only after five years of work and 40% canopy density.	Partly: credits need degraded forest land and five years of care. Retail tree-per-order trees are reported as trees planted, not credits.	PIB: Green Credit Programme, 16 Mar 2026

A tree per order, with proof the customer can see

Through Carbon Neutral Brands, every order, purchase or gift card can plant a tree. That is a 2-3 ft sapling, planted, cared for three years and geo-tagged. Customers can follow their tree online, which gives you the disclosure the CCPA guidelines expect.

Write the claim before you launch

Say 'we plant one tree for every order', not 'carbon-neutral delivery'. Name where the trees are planted and how long they are cared for. Keep vague words like 'eco-friendly' off the banner unless you can back them. Our survival methodology explains how we count trees that are alive.

Stores, warehouses and teams

Large chains can use CSR budgets for urban forests in the cities where they run stores, and agroforestry in rural districts. Store and warehouse teams can join plantation drives. Jewellery and lifestyle brands often gift trees to clients on festivals and anniversaries.

Questions retail and e-commerce companies ask

Can we say our orders are carbon neutral because we plant a tree per order?

We advise against it. The CCPA guidelines need substantiation for 'carbon-neutral'. Say 'one tree planted per order' and link to the tree data.

How much does a tree per order cost?

Pricing depends on the number of trees, the location and the programme. Each tree is a 2-3 ft sapling, planted, cared for three years and geo-tagged. See Carbon Neutral Brands.

Can customers see their tree?

Yes. Each tree is geo-tagged, and customers can view it online through a link or QR code you share.

Does plantation help with plastic EPR for our marketplace or stores?

No. EPR targets are met through recycling and processing of plastic packaging. Report plantation under CSR and BRSR instead.

Can our tree-per-order spend count as CSR?

It depends on the design. Customer campaigns are usually marketing spend. Your CSR committee decides what qualifies under Schedule VII, and the project must not benefit only employees.

Do you sell carbon credits from these trees?

No. We do not sell carbon credits from these plantations. Any carbon figure we share is an estimate.

Can store teams take part?

Yes. We run plantation drives for store, warehouse and office teams, and care for the trees afterwards.

Guides to read

Background reading from our blog, picked for this topic.

Visit the learning centre

Questions people ask

All questions on this topic

A real, geo-tagged tree for every order

What does a retail or e-commerce company need from tree plantation?

Trusted by 400+ companies

Companies planting with us

Celebrities and leaders who plant with us