COOL EARTH 2015 MILESTONES

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1 END OF YEAR UPDATE COOL EARTH 25 MILESTONES JANUARY: More acres than ever We kicked off 25 with the news that Cool Earth supporters had saved half a million acres of rainforest. Twelve months on that total is now over 640,000 Thanks to you, our partnerships have put more trees out of the reach of loggers than ever before. FEBRUARY: Made with Love AMARNO is a group of women creating artisan jewellery that s made with love for the forest, using seeds and dyes from plants. In February this cooperative in the Awajún partnership used Cool Earth funds for much needed computer training, giving them the skills they need to be able to access new markets and improve their business practices. Watch the artisans gathering seeds and making 03 rainforest saving jewellery here. MARCH: A strong village means a safe forest A third of all the families in our Asháninka partnership have seen a child die before the age of five. We are determined to tackle this tradgedy. In March we began working with the women in our partner villages, finding out some of the challenges mothers face, and training them to become maternal health promoters for the wider community. One of the of the biggest challenges that mothers and new babies face is malnutrition. So in 26 we will focus on improving nutrition throughout all our partnerships. Read Projects Manager Hannah s diary of the training. 03/ Rainforest view in our Asháninka Partnership AMARNO Jewellery Cooperative Maternal health training workshop in our Asháninka Partnership C O O L E A R T H E N D O F Y E A R U P D AT E : M I L E S T O N E S acres thirty times the size of Manhattan.

2 COOL EARTH END OF YEAR UPDATE: 25 MILESTONES APRIL: Healthy Forests & Healthy Families In our Lubutu partnership, 2,000 tonnes of wood are used for fuel every year. This has a huge impact on the forest. Wood fuelled stoves are also dangerous to health, Household air pollution from cooking fires kills more children every year than AIDS or malaria combined. (Practical Action, 20. Smoke: the Killer in the Kitchen ) In 25 we trained 164 community members on energy efficient stoves and the community built 45 stoves. In 26 we ll be carrying out a study to see how effective this has been. MAY: Empowering women in the Awajún In May we carried out a household survey in the Awajún partnership to see how working with Cool Earth had impacted communities. It had some great news. Over the past two years, 92% of AMARNO cooperative members have considerably higher self esteem, 85% of the women s hopes for the future of their community have improved a lot, and 97% of the women in the cooperative feel empowered. Your support has made a real difference to these women, and the future of their forest. 03 THIS AWARD IS A MASSIVE ACHIEVEMENT FOR SUCH A YOUNG CHARITY AND I M PROUD TO BE PART OF SOMETHING BUILT ENTIRELY ON THE COMMITMENT AND HARD WORK OF THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WE PARTNER WITH. I DON T THINK IT WILL BE A SURPRISE TO ANY OF OUR SUPPORTERS THAT COOL EARTH IS JUDGED THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS. Johan Eliasch, Co-founder of Cool Earth and Chairman and CEO of Head N.V JUNE: An Award Winning Idea You re backing an award winning idea. In June Cool Earth picked up the Charity Award for Environment and Conservation. We ve followed that up with a PEA (People, Environment, Action) award for best International NGO, and a Cornwall Sustainable Business Award, as well as being runner up for Third Sector s Big Impact award. A traditional indoor cooking fire, image by Practical Action /03 Female Empowerment in our Awajún partnership Cacao grown in our award winning Asháninka Partnership

3 WE VE GONE GLOBAL 80 SPECIES A new partnership in Papua New Guinea means the Cool Earth model is saving rainforest across three continents ON THE IUCN RED LIST SAFEGUARDED We ve developed a community-led 25 HIGHLIGHTS 154,154,686 TREES PROTECTED model that has been successfully replicated 167,000,882 in all three of the world s major rainforests TONNES OF CARBON LOCKED IN biomes. 97% The Queen s Commonwealth Canopy will join together forest protection initiatives across 153 nations Of the women in our Awajún partnership feel empowered. Case for Suppor t 09

4 JULY: Growing the Shield In July Cool Earth added a new village partnership. Oviri is the latest community to join our Asháninka Partnership in central Peru. The village lies between the steep mountains along the Rio Tambo. Their 16,000 acres has grown our forest shield to secure the northerly extent of the neighbouring reserve. This region is one of the most at-risk areas on the planet. The Ene Valley, where the project is located, currently has 28 logging concessions in operation and terrifyingly, a further 81 are in the process of authorisation. Read more AUGUST: Hunting Sustainably In Cool Earth s Lubutu partnership, we held workshops to make sure everyone was aware of the project and what it s trying to achieve. One outcome of these workshops was wider awareness of the rate of species extinction in the local area. A healthy forest is a bio-diverse one, and as a result of the workshops our partner villages decided to stop hunting using 12-gauge shotguns, and the use of toxic products and small-meshed fishing nets on spawning grounds, until July 28. The community are now using more sustainable methods of hunting and fishing, so families still have 03 COOL EARTH END OF YEAR UPDATE: 25 MILESTONES access to protein, but with less impact on the forest. SEPTEMBER: Cool Earth Goes Global In September we launched our most exciting partnership to date: saving rainforest in Papua New Guinea. The Yakolima partnership is working with three villages in the Milne Bay province in East Papua New Guinea. The launch of this partnership means Cool Earth is now saving rainforest across three continents and in all of the world s major rainforest biomes. Oviri Community, Ene Valley Red Duiker in our Lubutu Partnership 03 Sustainable hunting tools Cool Earth Goes Global

5 OCTOBER: 100% Rainforest Hot on the heels of the launch of our new partnership we received an unbelievably generous gift. Thanks to a visionary grant from the Michael Uren Foundation, all our operational costs will be covered until the end of next year. The Foundation were impressed by the simplicity and effectiveness of what we re doing and wanted to ensure every donation goes directly to saving rainforest Thank you for your support in 25 and here s to saving more rainforest together in 26. That means that for the whole of 26, 100% of your donations to Cool Earth will go directly to our rainforest partnerships. It means your support has more impact than ever. Read more NOVEMBER: The Queen s Commonwealth Canopy November saw the launch of a new initiative to protect forest across the 153 nations that make up the Commonwealth. The Queens Commonwealth Canopy has Cool Earth s model of community-led conservation at its heart. Announced by the Queen herself, it s an exciting initiative that we re proud to be leading alongside the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Forestry Association. The Queen s Commonwealth Canopy will show that, irrespective of geography, economy, culture or tenure, solutions exist to the threats facing these most critical of ecosystems. 03 COOL EARTH END OF YEAR UPDATE: 25 MILESTONES DECEMBER: Drought Emergency in PNG While 40,000 delegates in Paris spent hours debating how to prevent global warming, climate change was already threatening lives on the ground. Papua New Guinea was experiencing the worst drought in living memory. Our partner communities had to travel by dinghy to a neighbouring village to fill tanks with drinking water, and were running out of food. We had an overwhelming response to our emergency appeal which meant that the 67 families in our Yakolima partnership survived a devastating drought. This means they can carry on protecting their forest and keeping the palm oil plantations at bay. 100% rainforest protection in 26 QCC initiative will protect forest across 153 commonwealth nations 03/ Drought emergency in Papua New Guinea