Actions in this pledge

• Conserving trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  

  Conserving

• Restoring and growing trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Reforestation

  Re-establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land classified as forest, that has been degraded or where trees are unlikely to regenerate naturally

  Agroforestry

  Activities that establish and manage the integration of trees into agricultural landscapes, silvopastoral systems, farming in forests and along forest margins and tree-crop production

  Mangrove restoration

  Establishment or enhancement of mangroves along coastal areas and in estuaries

  Watershed protection and erosion control

  Establishment and enhancement of forests on very steep sloping land, along water courses, in areas that naturally flood and around critical water bodies

  Urban tree planting

  Planting and maintaining trees within urban areas

  Additional details

  MetLife is supporting several reforestation programs in the United States and forests around the world, as well as smaller scale urban tree planting programs in cities around the world. We will continue to scale these programs globally and identify projects with meaningful impact for the environment and local communities.

  

  Restoring & Growing

  Land area

  25'500 acres

• Enabling activities for trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Sustainable forest management

  Activities that support the stewardship and use of forests (including by local communities and indigenous peoples), to maintain their biological diversity, productivity, and regeneration capacity, as well as their potential to fulfil relevant ecological economic and social functions

  Education and capacity building

  Forest / tree species conservation and restoration education programmes, targeted educational and behaviour change campaigns, training and capacity building, including promotion of local and traditional knowledge and practices

  Community mobilisation

  Community mobilisation and engagement activities for conservation, restoration and reforestation, including enabling systems of community governance, etc.

  Youth engagement

  Engagement of young people and/or youth networks to catalyse a restoration generation

  Additional details

  MetLife is engaging thousands of employees, customers, and partners in our tree planting programs. For example, in the U.S., MetLife has committed to plant a tree on behalf of every new hire and every retiree. Additionally, we are planting trees on behalf of major employee milestone anniversaries (i.e. 5 years, 10 years with the company). As recognition for participating in environmental programs at work, such as our annual EcoChallenge, we send employees trees to plant at their homes through Arbor Day Foundation’s Community Canopy program. Furthermore, we are engaging employees and customers in urban tree planting programs through volunteerism. We are also identifying ways to connect tree planting with our products and customer communications. For example, in Romania, we have launched a program called “Tree of Life”, where we are planting one tree on behalf of new customers in certain product lines. In Korea, MetLife sent plants and small trees to employees and schools to promote mental and environmental wellbeing. Also in Korea, MetLife hosted an environmental engagement campaign on social media and planted trees on behalf of engagement. We will continue to identify innovative ways of encouraging tree conservation and restoration with our stakeholders.
  Across the MetLife enterprise, we have also prioritized digitization across our operations, products and services. We are continuously working on ways to reduce our paper consumption and encouraging customers to adopt paperless communication options. Within our supply chain, MetLife prioritizes purchasing paper that has (Forest Stewardship Council) FSC or (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) SFI certification. We will continue to measure and monitor our paper consumption and work with partners across the organization to reduce consumption and offer sustainable purchasing guidelines.

  

  Enabling