{"id":25711,"date":"2023-04-27T07:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/nestle-uses-airbus-satellites\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T07:09:30","slug":"nestle-uses-airbus-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/nestle-uses-airbus-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestle uses Airbus satellites to monitor reforestation in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richa Naidu<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211;     Nestle is piloting using Airbus satellites to monitor reforestation, amid global concerns about whether consumer goods companies are doing enough to reduce their carbon footprints.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus&#8217; Pl\u00e9iades Neo satellites will provide high-resolution images in the Ranong and Chumphon provinces of southern Thailand that will help to ensure trees Nestle has planted in sourcing regions grow long term, the world&#8217;s biggest food company said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more accurate because you need to go down to 30 centimetres, which is a sheet of paper,&#8221; Magdi Batato, Executive Vice President, Head of Operations, at Nestle, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EU (European Union) green taxonomy touches on a lot of points, and one point which is coming more and more to the table today is the point of landscapes,&#8221; Batato said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very important also to remove carbon through restoring landscapes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nestle&#8217;s global reforestation programme, a key part of its 2050 net zero emissions goal, aims to plant and grow 200 million trees in the Swiss company&#8217;s supply chain by 2030. The company in 2022 secured 12.4 million trees through reforestation projects in Australia, China, Ghana and Thailand, it said. <\/p>\n<p>The maker of KitKat bars, Nescafe coffee and Maggi stock cubes said the satellites would monitor more than 150,000 shade trees in farms from where it sources coffee over a 20-year period. <\/p>\n<p>Shade trees help prevent coffee plants&#8217; over-exposure to the sun, increase yield and productivity over the long term, while also removing carbon from the atmosphere, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We aim to sequester 200,000 metric tonnes of carbon over the lifetime of this project,&#8221; Benjamin\u00a0Ware, Nestle&#8217;s global head of climate and sustainable sourcing, said. He added the company believed one tonne of carbon can be &#8220;sunk&#8221; with six shade trees.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Richa Naidu; Editing by Mark Potter)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/nestle-uses-airbus-satellites\/file-photo-logo-is-pictured-on-the-nestle-research-center-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3Q08S-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3Q08S-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Nestle is piloting using Airbus satellites to monitor reforestation, amid global concerns about whether consumer goods companies are doing enough to reduce their carbon footprints. 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