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McGill establishes fair-trade carbon offsetting project in Panama with new partnership
Partnership with Indigenous community provides learning opportunity for students, contributes to McGill’s carbon neutrality target
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Alvaro Omi and his mother Luz Karina Lana, project participants from the community of Piriati, plant trees on their lot.
McGill has committed to a new fair-trade carbon offsetting project in partnership with Indigenous Panamanian communities, furthering the University’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040 by planting trees to offset greenhouse gas emissions.
Through the partnership, the University has committed to providing the financial contribution necessary for the project’s implementation until, at least, the end of 2022. In 2020, the project successfully planted 25,000 native tree seedlings in collaboration with 25 families in Panama. ....

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