Jun 16, 2025
Why trees make ideal sustainable corporate gifts
Discover sustainable corporate gifts that never go out of style! Treat employees and customers with eco-friendly gifts that promote your company's focus on sustainability
Give trees as an eco-friendly corporate gift that meets your ESG goals and helps combat climate change.
Corporate gifts are great for strengthening business relationships and showing appreciation. Learn more about how a thoughtful, sustainable gift can build long-lasting relationships and enhance your company's reputation. We have the perfect nature-based solution for your business - trees!
Green corporate gifts for employees that never go out of style
We are EcoTree, a sustainable forestry company that enables everyone to buy, own, and give trees. Our expert team of foresters manages forests across Europe, so when you buy and give trees through the EcoTree website, you know it's the real thing. The lucky recipient of your gift can then follow and learn all about their tree via an online EcoTree account.
But that's not all! Our forests are sustainably managed with long-term forestry plans. When the trees in EcoTree forests reach old age after many years, we harvest them and then sell them as sustainable timber. All the profits then go back to the person who owns the tree - the lucky person who receives the gift from you!
1. Make a real difference for the climate
What does a typical corporate gift look like? Pens, mugs, notebooks, and wine bottles are common corporate gifts. These are all material items, many of which are made from single-use plastic and often go straight into the trash.
When you give a tree as a corporate Christmas gift, you avoid overconsumption and make a genuine contribution to the environment. That's because the trees you give are natural carbon sinks that absorb CO2 from the Earth's atmosphere.
Of course, trees continue to store that carbon for decades to come. As one of nature’s most powerful resources, trees play a vital role in securing the planet’s future, supporting the green transition, and combating climate change. Your company can play its part through a simple Christmas gift!
2. Achieve your CSR goals
Business owners are more aware than ever that environmental responsibility must be part of their corporate strategy. ESG goals are not an add-on feature or a marginal company policy; they are the embodiment of brand values and show who you are as a company.
With EcoTree, you can meet your ESG goals while giving an eco-friendly Christmas gift with tangible benefits. Our team can help you choose the right corporate gifts for your ESG goals and measure and demonstrate your positive environmental impact.
The company, partner, or customer receiving your corporate Christmas gift will become a tree owner and can contribute to their own ESG goals.
3. A symbolic, meaningful gesture
When we give a Christmas gift, it's a way for us to show how we feel and say that we appreciate each other. Is there a more symbolic and meaningful gift than a tree? We don't think so. Trees represent the beauty of nature, bring people together, and live for decades, if not centuries. That's why trees make an excellent and thoughtful gift for any occasion. As a company, you can show your business partners that you value your collaboration and hope it lasts for many years to come. When your gift grows in one of our forests, your partnership will grow too.
When you give a tree through EcoTree, you can also choose the species. So, whether you choose an Oak or a Corsican pine, you can learn the history of each species and choose a symbolic Christmas gift that sends the right message.
4. Protect biodiversity and natural habitats
We maintain our forests using a close-to-nature forestry method. This means that we plant and care for forests of mixed ages and never clear-cut because we understand the importance of protecting natural habitats. The trees in our forests are home to many plants and animals that are vital to the local ecosystem.
When you buy and give a tree as a sustainable corporate gift, you are directly contributing to biodiversity conservation. We also run several biodiversity projects that you can support, and you can even start a monthly forest subscription to show an even more long-term commitment.
It's important to remember that trees make a great green corporate gift, but they are also part of a larger, vital ecosystem. Not only are you choosing an eco-friendly and alternative gift, you're also helping to support vital biodiversity and natural habitats in a time of climate crisis.
5. Support local forest projects
We’re working on several exciting forest projects across Denmark, including in North Jutland and on the island of Orø. For example, in Nysum, a former gravel pit is being transformed into a vibrant, biodiverse forest. On Orø, we’ve already begun converting farmland into new forest, with multiple expansions already in progress. These local projects allow you to offer eco-friendly corporate gifts that not only make a difference for the climate but also create value close to your business.
When you choose to support a project near your office, you not only get a strong ESG story, but you also get to visit the trees that your company has helped plant. This gives both employees and customers a more tangible and meaningful experience of your contribution to a greener future.
Would you like to hear more about our Danish projects? Then please reach out to us - we look forward to helping you make a difference locally!
6. Make a long-term, sustainable, and green investment
Nature never goes out of style, so you don't have to worry about that when you give the gift of a tree. But there are other good reasons why trees in EcoTree forests are an excellent long-term investment. It's all down to our proven, certified forestry model.
We are forest managers, and we manage and care for our forests ourselves. When your sustainable Christmas gift reaches the end of its natural lifespan, we harvest the timber from these trees and use it to produce building materials. Your gift lasts for many, many years, and nothing goes to waste.
Because the trees increase in value over the years, the tree owner gets all the profit back when their lifecycle is complete and the timber is sold to local sawmills.
How to give a sustainable corporate gift
You can buy trees in EcoTrees forests and support biodiversity conservation projects all year round.
Our team is ready to help you purchase trees as sustainable corporate gifts. Book a meeting with us or fill out the contact form, and we'll reach out to you. We can also help you personalise your gifts, for example, by adding your logo to the gifts.
