A not-for-profit climate initiative

Every journey leaves a mark. Let yours grow.

When you buy a vehicle, you commit to a forest equal to its lifetime carbon — planted, named, and tracked for decades. Real trees, in your own city, balancing the road ahead.

What does your vehicle owe? Find out
24.5M
vehicles registered in India in 2025
41–49%
of urban heat that tree canopy can offset
7°C
peak local cooling urban forests deliver
20+ yrs
your grove is tracked and tended
Feel it for yourself

What does your vehicle owe the planet?

Don't take our word for it. Set your own vehicle below and watch its lifetime footprint — and the forest it would take to balance it — appear in front of you.

Your vehicle
12,000
12 yrs
Your vehicle's lifetime footprint
28.8
tonnes of CO₂
over its full life
131
trees to balance it
grown over 20 years
Each tree below is one your journey would plant
Per year
2.4 t CO₂
Forest size
~0.16 acres
Same vehicle, three fuels
How your chosen size and usage compare across petrol, diesel and electric.
FuelLifetime CO₂TreesFootprint
The city cooling index

What if a whole city's vehicles planted forests?

Scale your vehicle up to a fleet. See the urban forest it would create — and how much greener and cooler a city could become.

1.3M
trees planted
1,640
acres of forest
tonnes CO₂ balanced
2–4°C
local cooling under canopy, at peak heat
Local
how far the relief reaches
Greening & cooling potentialNeighbourhood scale
The model in plain terms. We estimate fuel burned over the vehicle's life, convert it to CO₂, and divide by how much carbon a tree absorbs over 20 years.

Emission factors: petrol ~2.31 kg CO₂/litre, diesel ~2.68 kg CO₂/litre. EV emissions reflect India's current grid (~0.71 kg CO₂/kWh) and fall as the grid greens.

Fuel economy assumed: two-wheeler ~45 km/l, hatchback ~18 km/l, sedan ~14 km/l, SUV ~11 km/l; EVs ~5–35 km/kWh by size.

Tree absorption: ~22 kg CO₂ per tree per year, over a 20-year horizon. Real figures vary widely by species, soil, climate and survival rate.

Cooling degrees are local, not citywide. Research shows urban canopy delivers ~2–7°C of cooling under and around the trees at peak heat, and offsets 41–49% of the heat-island effect — it does not lower a whole city's average by a fixed number. The °C shown is the relief felt where the forest grows; as the fleet grows, that relief reaches more of the city ("reach"). Cooling tiers and the Cubbon Park comparison (~300 acres) illustrate scale and potential.

Planning estimates only. Final figures will come from a commissioned, peer-reviewable study with forestry science partners. Use this as a sense of scale, not precise accounting.
Our vision

A generation of vehicles that gives more than it takes.

India will put hundreds of millions of vehicles on its roads this decade. Each one is a promise to the future — for better or worse. Trees for Transport turns that promise green: every vehicle paired with a living forest, every city cooler and cleaner because of the cars within it, every owner part of restoring the land they drive across. Not someday. Starting now, starting at home.

Responsibility made beautiful

Not guilt, not a tax — a grove you name, visit, and watch grow. Owning a vehicle becomes an act of giving back.

Cities that breathe again

Forests where people live and drive — cooling streets, clearing air, restoring the green identity our cities are losing.

A model that travels

Proven in one city, built to scale to every city, every country with vehicles and the will to balance them.

How it works

Drive cleaner. Without changing what you drive.

You don't have to give up the vehicle you love to take responsibility for it.

We measure honestly

A certified, science-backed model estimates your vehicle's true lifetime carbon — and the exact forest needed to balance it.

We plant it for real

Native trees go into the ground on land from makers and the state — chosen by forestry scientists, grown by the Forest Department.

You watch it grow

A named grove, GPS-tagged and tracked for two decades. Visit it. Watch the canopy rise. See the carbon it holds.

Two forests, two purposes

One in your city. One for the planet.

Your commitment is split where it does the most good.

In your city

The urban grove

Trees along avenues, in parks, beside lakes — where the heat and the haze actually are. Visible, visitable, and yours.

  • Cools neighbourhoods and clears the air
  • Native, pollution-tolerant species
  • A grove you can stand beneath
Restoring the land

The carbon forest

Dense plantation on degraded land brought back to life — where the real sequestration, and real restoration, happens.

  • Maximum verified carbon capture
  • Degraded land made fertile again
  • Soil, water and wildlife revived
Built on credibility

The right hands on every tree.

Not a planting drive — a scientifically governed program, with species, land and carbon all independently validated.

Forest Department

Species selection, nursery supply, and land at scale.

Forestry Science Institutes

Independent carbon and species validation.

City Corporations

Urban planting sites and greening mandates.

Vehicle Makers

Local land and the green commitment at delivery.

For vehicle makers

Turn every vehicle you sell into a forest with your name on it.

Give your customers something no rival offers — a vehicle that plants a living, local, named grove. Contribute land near your dealerships; we handle the science, the planting, and the tracking.

  • A premium, brand-building experience at delivery
  • Qualifies as CSR under environmental sustainability
  • Visible local groves — a green asset you can point to
  • Verified impact reporting, generated for you
Partner with us
Your contribution, at work
You provideLocal land
We provideScience + planting + tech
Your customer getsA named grove
You getCSR + brand + reporting
Start withOne pilot grove
Starting in Bengaluru

We begin where it began — the Garden City.

Bengaluru gave India the idea of a city in a garden. We're helping give it back — one grove at a time, beside the lakes and avenues that made its name.

From here, the model grows to every city that needs it.

A grove, made real
Grove nameThe Reddy Grove
LocationHebbal Lake, Bengaluru
Trees committed108 native
Lifetime CO₂ balanced~42 tonnes
StatusGrowing · Yr 2

Your road has a footprint. Give it roots.

Join the owners turning every journey into something that grows. Start your grove, or bring Trees for Transport to your dealership.