Pina Earth's 2025 Sustainability Report
2025 was a special year for Pina Earth: We merged with Tree.ly and joined forces to continue advancing forest-based climate protection in Europe together. Our latest report for 2025 shows that our impact continues to grow—and so does our responsibility.
Highlights from 2025: A Year of Growing Together
With the merger of Pina Earth and Tree.ly, we have consolidated our operations in Germany and Austria to jointly take forest-based climate protection in Europe to a new level. We have project sites in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Italy, and over 80,000 hectares of forest under contract. With more than 500,000 metric tons of certified, regional CO2 credits and a network of over 100 corporate clients, the new entity has positioned itself as the market leader in the DACH region.
Even beyond the merger, 2025 was a year of significant impact:
- A total of more than €4 million was disbursed to our forest projects—a new company record.
- ICROA’s conditional endorsement of the Ecosystem Value Alliance Foundation’s “Forest Climate Standard”—a clear mark of quality for our customers.
- 89 climate protection projects across four project types: forest conversion, sustainable forest management, nature reserves, and ARR (afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation).
- 4 million metric tons of CO2 — under contract with Pina Earth, with a project duration of over 30 years.
- Participation in the WEF in Davos: We hosted the “Nature Lunch” with 150 guests from the investment, business, and political sectors to discuss the operational implementation of climate goals.
- More than 40 new corporate customers were acquired as first-time buyers in 2025, the majority of whom signed multi-year contracts.
Sustainability in the Workplace
We have also actively promoted Sustainability 2025 within our own organization:
- Focusing on Our Own Emissions: We have once again calculated our carbon footprint for 2025 according to Scopes 1–3 and reduced our mobility-related emissions by over 50% compared to 2024. For our remaining 16 metric tons of CO2e (including a 10% safety margin), we have invested in two projects: our own “Ladis Community Agricultural Cooperative” project (sustainable forest management) in Tyrol and energy-efficient cooking stoves in Kenya.
- Team & Culture: By 2025, our team had grown to 24 full-time employees, with a Happiness Score of 72% (internal survey, Dec. 2025). We invested more than 100 hours in our team’s professional development and held three team retreats that brought together our colleagues from Munich, Berlin, and Dornbirn.
- Sustainable work practices: Shared office spaces, secondhand equipment, digital-first workflows, and a travel policy that prioritizes trains over planes are all part of our daily work routine.
Project Spotlight: Schöneiche
A good example of our impact on the ground is the Schöneiche project in Brandenburg, about 50 km from Berlin: Across 260 hectares, a pine monoculture is being converted into a climate-resilient mixed forest—to be validated according to the Forest Climate Standard in March 2025. The expected impact over the project’s duration: an additional 39,700 metric tons of CO2 sequestered and significantly greater biodiversity—in part due to newly introduced tree species such as beech, English oak, and maple.
Outlook for 2026
For 2026, we have set the following goals, among others:
- Driving Investment in Sustainable Forestry: Our focus remains similar to last year’s—with 89 projects in our portfolio, we are ready to attract further local investments in sustainable forestry. We are focused on further strengthening our network of partnerships and clients.
- Further simplifying access to high-quality, nature-based climate solutions: Companies must be able to take concrete climate action with confidence and transparency. For us, this means aligning our certificates with recognized standards such as ICR and ISO, as well as frameworks such as CRCF and the Core Carbon Principles. This also includes expanding our methodology to new regions (CH/AT/IT).
- To be a workplace where our team can continue to grow even amid change: We pay close attention to our team’s well-being and workload, especially after a year of the merger. We also want to continue offering regular knowledge-sharing sessions and professional development opportunities, including on new tools such as AI.
- Growth Goal – Scaling Sustainably: In the coming year, we aim to further increase our company’s impact without increasing our environmental footprint to the same extent.
Would you like to learn more? Read the full sustainability report here .
