ESG, carbon sinks, net zero, corporate sustainability activities… these terms come up everywhere, yet rarely get explained clearly. Here we lay out the basics of corporate sustainability action in plain language, so you can decide where to begin.
Short for Environmental, Social and Governance — a framework for measuring how a company performs on sustainability. It is widely used in investment assessment and corporate disclosure.
A natural or human-made system that absorbs and stores atmospheric carbon dioxide, such as forests, soil and oceans. Corporate tree planting is one way to grow forest carbon sinks.
When human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, minus what is removed (such as absorption by carbon sinks), equals zero. The emphasis is on cutting emissions deeply first, then offsetting the remainder through removal.
Balancing your own carbon emissions through reduction and the purchase of carbon credits or offsets. The scope is usually narrower than net zero and may cover only part of emissions or rely mainly on offsets.
When a company prioritises products with a positive social and environmental impact in its procurement (such as from tribes, farmers and social enterprises), turning its budget into a force for sustainability. Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs runs a Buying Power award.
Enterprise Nature Connection. A corporate sustainability experience designed by DOMI and delivered on-site at our sustainability bases, combining tree planting, learning from the land and ESG dialogue, with output materials you can write into your sustainability report.
ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance — a framework for measuring corporate sustainability performance. Investors use it to assess a company’s long-term risk and responsibility, while companies use it to plan and disclose their own sustainability actions.
A carbon sink is a system that absorbs and stores atmospheric carbon dioxide, such as forests, soil and oceans. Tree planting fixes carbon as the trees grow, increasing the forest carbon sink. In practice it is estimated using published carbon-sequestration coefficients based on species, age, area and survival rate; Good Forest uses Forestry Bureau public coefficients for conservative estimates and keeps an evidence trail for every action.
Both aim to balance emissions and removals, but net zero emphasises cutting emissions deeply first and then offsetting the remainder through removal such as carbon sinks, usually covering all emissions; carbon neutral can be narrower in scope and is more often achieved by purchasing carbon credits or offsets. In short, the threshold and scope of net zero are usually stricter than carbon neutral.
Sustainability activities address several needs at once: meeting ESG and stakeholder expectations, building employee engagement and company culture, accumulating concrete actions and data for the sustainability report, and creating real positive impact on the land and local communities. A good sustainability activity is not a one-off PR move but a corporate asset that can be sustained and accumulated.
Common types include tree planting and land restoration, employee sustainability experiences (visiting farms or tribes), ESG talks and workshops, leadership camps, and programs customised to a company’s needs. You can choose the angle based on the participants (employees, families, customers, suppliers) and your goals.
ENC (Enterprise Nature Connection) is a corporate sustainability action experience designed by DOMI and delivered on-site at Good Forest sustainability bases, combining tree planting, learning from the land, local culture and ESG dialogue. Afterwards, results reports, impact data and materials for the sustainability report are compiled, so a single experience extends into an asset the company can use.
Beyond growing the forest carbon sink, when corporate planting partners with a local base it also brings employment and income for tribes and farmers, restoration of native species and habitats, and continuity of local culture. Good Forest channels part of the proceeds from every partnership back to the land and community.
