Telecom, media and entertainment

Fan campaigns and CSR forests people can follow

Link a tree to every match, show or subscriber action, and run CSR forests near your circles and studios. Every tree is geo-tagged and 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 telecom, media or entertainment company need from tree plantation?

Listed telcos and media houses in the top 1,000 must file a BRSR. Companies above the s.135 thresholds must spend 2% of average net profit on CSR. Fan pledges such as 500 saplings per dot ball in the IPL 2024 playoffs show how audiences now expect visible green action. So these companies need plantation that is verifiable, linked to audience actions and kept separate from network energy emissions.

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What we deliver

Services for telecom, media and entertainment

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

One tree per action

A tree for each dot ball, goal, stream or subscriber action, with a public tracking page.

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CSR forests

Three-year CSR plantation near your circles, studios or home grounds.

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Event and city forests

An urban forest in the host city for a match, premiere or festival.

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Fan and staff drives

Planting days for employees, fans and creators, with safety and logistics handled.

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GreenTrack reporting

Geo-tagged trees and survival data for CSR committees, sponsors and audiences.

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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 2026-10-08.

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

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Telecom, media and entertainment: what drives plantation

Telecom operators, media houses, sports franchises and studios have no plantation law of their own. They plant for CSR, BRSR and above all for audiences who expect visible action. The cards below show each driver and where trees help.

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: a three-year plantation near circles, studios or home grounds can be a reportable CSR project.	PRS: Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026
BRSR (SEBI, 2021)	The top 1,000 listed entities, including listed telcos and media houses, file a BRSR, mandatory from FY 2022-23.	Partly: plantation goes into environment disclosures; it does not change network energy or emissions figures.	SEBI board memorandum on BRSR, April 2021
Green telecom (TRAI recommendations, 2011)	TRAI recommended hybrid renewable-plus-grid power for towers and carbon footprint reporting by operators.	No: trees do not cut diesel or grid emissions at towers. Only power and equipment changes do.	TRAI recommendations on green telecom, 2011
Fan-facing pledges (IPL 2024 playoffs, BCCI)	The BCCI and the Tata group pledged 500 saplings for every dot ball in the IPL 2024 playoffs.	Yes: one tree per action works when each tree is planted, located and checked for survival, and fans can see it.	Wisden: IPL 2024 playoffs dot-ball count
Green claims (CCPA greenwashing guidelines, 2024)	Advertisers and endorsers must back environmental claims with credible evidence.	Partly: geo-tagged trees and survival data back a campaign claim. A vague 'eco-friendly' tag does not.	Storyboard18: CCPA greenwashing guidelines
National tree cover goal (India's NDC, 2022)	An additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes CO2e through forest and tree cover by 2030.	Partly: plantation supports this national goal. It does not count toward your own scope 1 or 2 targets.	India's updated NDC, August 2022 (UNFCCC)

Telecom: fix the network, then plant

Tower and network energy is the core of a telecom footprint. Trees do not reduce it, so keep plantation in CSR and biodiversity reporting, not in emission totals. See our net-zero page for how to present both.

Make every action count, visibly

A tree per dot ball, per goal, per stream or per subscription is easy for fans to grasp. It only holds up if the trees are real, located and alive. Our one-tree-per-action platform links each action to a tree and a public page.

Plan the planting season early. Big tournaments and festivals rarely match the monsoon, so pledges are planted in the right window and reported later.

Turn events into forests

Premieres, concerts, matches and award nights can each fund an urban forest in the host city. They can also fund farm trees through agroforestry, where farmers keep the fruit and timber income. Viewers and fans can follow the forest on GreenTrack.

Questions telecom, media and entertainment companies ask

Can trees offset our tower and network emissions?

No. Tower diesel and grid power are scope 1 and 2 emissions, and trees do not reduce them. Report plantation as CSR or a contribution beyond your targets.

How does a tree-per-action campaign work?

Each action, such as a dot ball, goal or subscription, is counted and matched to a tree. We plant in the right season and publish locations and survival on GreenTrack.

Can fans see the trees?

Yes. Each campaign gets a public page with tree locations, species and survival checks.

Can we plant during the tournament itself?

Only if the season suits. Most planting is done in the monsoon window, so pledges made during a tournament are planted and reported afterwards.

Can we call a show or match carbon neutral because of trees?

We advise against it. Carbon figures from young trees are estimates, and the CCPA expects green claims to be backed by evidence. State the number of trees and where they grow.

What does it cost?

Pricing depends on the number of trees, the location and the programme. Each tree is a 2-3 ft sapling, planted, geo-tagged and cared for three years. Event forests and CSR projects are priced per project after a site survey.

Do you sell carbon credits from these trees?

No. We do not sell carbon credits from these plantations, and farmers in our agroforestry projects keep the fruit and timber income.

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