Ocado's charity partnership with our green-fingered friends at Trees For Cities is just one of the many ways they're working towards a carbon-friendly future. In 2020, Ocado donated over £560,000 to Trees for Cities, and planted more than 100,000 trees together, rejuvenating urban spaces and sequestering over 37,000 tonnes of CO2 in the process! At Octopus Energy, we're no strangers to the benefits of tree planting, so it's only natural that we wanted to get in on the action.

Trees for Cities is a UK-based charity who work with local communities to revitalise neglected city spaces and create healthier environments, all by planting trees! As well as offsetting CO2, urban trees help mitigate climate change by cooling the air and the ground, reducing the risk of our cities becoming ‘heat sinks’. Trees also absorb air pollution, and boost biodiversity, turning our streets into neighbourhoods for thousands of different species. You can read more about their work at Treesforcities.org.