Trees for Change - Project Update - Winter 2010 / Spring 2011

What have we done so far?
So far - as at the end of the 2010 planting season - we have planted more than 4.5 million native species trees at several sites across British Columbia, Canada.

The seedlings - mainly Interior Douglas-fir, White Spruce and Lodgepole Pine - were grown in local tree nurseries from locally-derived seed chosen to best fit with each planting site.

* - potentially excluding, subject to confirmation, some of the energy use at the manufacturing operations acquired with SSL International plc (SSL) in November 2010. To date (Q4 2010) all acquisitions of manufacturing facilities by Reckitt Benckiser (RB) since 1st January 2006 have been included in the Trees for Change project scope. However, until we have calculated the GHG emissions from energy use at the manufacturing facilities RB acquired with SSL in November 2010 we are not able to confirm the extent to which those additional 'SSL' emissions, which will largely occur in 2011, are covered by the current scope of the Trees for Change project. Trees for Change has always included a safety margin comprising some additional offsetting, such that we would be offsetting somewhat more CO2 than actually necessary; this means that at least some and possibly all of the 'SSL' emissions in 2011 will be offset by the project without any further expansion of its scope.