ComBank embarks on another sustainability initiative planting 100,000 ‘Trees for Tomorrow’

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has embarked on an ambitious nationwide tree planting campaign to plant 100,000 trees across Sri Lanka in three years, to help achieve country’s self-defined national climate pledges under the UN Paris Agreement.

Aptly titled ‘Trees for Tomorrow’ the programme commenced on 11th November 2023, four days ahead of National Tree Planting Day – 15th November – with the planting of 12,000 trees at 17 locations in 12 districts, achieving 12% of the target in a single day. More than 1000 members of the staff of Commercial Bank participated in the tree planting.

Among the locations chosen for the planting of trees on the launch day were Giguruwa in the Sinharaja forest, the lower slopes of the Hantana mountain range, the precincts of the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura, the Bellanwila – Attidiya bird sanctuary, the banks of the Tissamaharama Wewa, the Victoria Park in Nuwara Eliya and the grounds of several universities.