Polish Post and State Forests together for the environment
Poczta Polska and the State Forests signed an agreement today to cooperate on environmental projects. The collaboration, under Poczta Polska's Corporate Social Responsibility program, will begin in 2021, and Poczta Polska employees will volunteer to plant forests in areas managed by the State Forests.
The signing of the agreement is a natural continuation of the initiative implemented in 2020 by Poczta Polska and the State Forests. The impetus and announcement of this broader collaboration came from a tree-planting event held in Solec Kujawski on October 20th of last year. At that time, Poczta Polska employees from the Bydgoszcz Network Region planted 462 trees, the exact number of years since Poczta Polska was founded.
" This time, we have a chance to work together to reduce the negative impact of humans on the state and condition of the natural environment. Pro-ecological projects align well with Poczta Polska's CSR policy and the company's ongoing commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, whose primary goal is to maintain harmony between the environment, the economy, and society, " said Tomasz Zdzikot, CEO of Poczta Polska. " We all know that forests have a huge impact on our health, but we don't always remember this. Forests are our common good and an essential element of ecological balance. Poczta Polska wants everyday environmental care to become a common habit, " he added.
Andrzej Konieczny, director general of the State Forests, emphasizes that more and more companies want to plant trees. " It's worth remembering that plants approximately 500 million trees each year , an average of a thousand per minute. Foresters plant them in places where we previously harvested timber for the Polish economy and families (reforestation) and where there were no forests before, for example, on unused former agricultural land (afforestation). Today, Poland is covered with forests by almost 30 percent, and their area has increased by about half since the end of the war ," he says.
Thirty years ago, at the beginning of the political transformation, there were an average of 99 trees per Pole in forests managed by the State Forests. Today, although the population has not changed significantly since then, the average is 161 trees per capita – 63 more.
The consequence of joint actions will be not only the development of forest areas, but above all the protection of the climate and air, which will also translate into a reduction of the carbon footprint.