Most importantly, our trees are not only good for the climate but have also helped tens of thousands of people to build a better future for themselves and their communities. Our efforts to protect biodiversity have never been more critical, and this milestone of 100 million trees is an important step in the right direction. The search engine even saw record search volumes in the last week of April, at the height of the lockdown, up by 73% year-on-year.Ĭhristian Kroll, the CEO of Ecosia who we interviewed earlier this year, commented: “The climate crisis is the biggest existential threat that humanity has ever faced and we have very little time left to prevent a global catastrophe. Despite that, Ecosia has continued to grow its global user-base, with 25% more users in June 2020 compared to June 2019.

Ecosia’s revenues in May were over € 1 million lower than in February, at the start of the crisis.

However, the collapse of online advertising revenues due to the COVID-19 health crisis is hampering Ecosia’s ability to plant trees. The mission-driven company has restored approximately 35 thousand hectares of woodland and helped to protect biodiversity and natural beauty across all 6 inhabited continents. Collectively, the trees will remove up to 30 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere when fully grown, and Ecosia’s 100 million trees sequester 1771 tonnes of CO2 each day. With its strong privacy policy, Ecosia does not track user data, but the survey indicates that over 1.2 million young people across the UK could be potential active users of the tree planting search engine.Įcosia reached its 100 millionth tree today, just two years after the company hit the 30 million trees planted milestone. According to a recent straw poll Ecosia carried out of over 11,000 users, more than 80% of those respondents were under the age of 29. The green search engine is also seeing rapid growth among a younger audience. As knowledge of the climate crisis has risen in recent years, Ecosia’s popularity has also climbed – usership of the search engine in the UK increased by over 140% in 2019. Ecosia, the green search engine that uses its advertising revenues to plant trees in areas affected by deforestation, today planted the 100th million tree in its campaign to restore devastated forests and woodlands across the world.įounded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, Ecosia’s tree planting mission is entirely supported by the advertising revenue generated from searches conducted by its 15 million users globally – including around 1.5 million across the UK.

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