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PABT Foundation is an India-based nonprofit working across nature restoration, circular resource management, clean energy, corporate ESG advisory, and grassroots community action. We believe environmental repair only lasts when it's tied to livelihoods, transparency, and local ownership.
How We Got Here
Scroll down to walk through our journey year by year.
Year 1Plant A Billion Trees Begins
PABT started as a single-purpose afforestation drive, focused on native species restoration in degraded rural land and Miyawaki forests.
Year 2Circularity Joins the Mission
We saw that thriving forests need clean watersheds and waste-free communities around them, so PABT Circular waste diversion was born.
Year 3Clean Energy & Green Innovation
PABT Future brought solar micro-grids, EV charging hubs, and climate-tech pilots to off-grid rural communities.
Year 4ESG & CSR Advisory Launch
PABT ESG & CSR was launched to empower corporate partners with materiality audits, BRSR alignment, and transparent CSR project funding.
TodayFive Pathways, One Movement
PABT Community mobilizes school eco-clubs, volunteers, and local stewards, completing an ecosystem where nature, industry, and citizens move together.
What Guides Our Work
Four core principles shape every project we take on, across all five pathways.
Native-First Restoration
We plant and protect species that belong to a landscape, not ones that are easiest to source, so ecosystems recover on their own terms.
Radical Transparency
Every project we run is independently audited and reported against, from sapling survival rates to carbon offset ledgers.
Community Ownership
Long-term impact only sticks when the people living on the land lead it. We train, employ, and hand over stewardship locally.
Systems Thinking
Nature, waste, energy, enterprise, and community aren't separate problems — we design every project to move all five at once.
Our Programmes
Environment
Sow a seed for a better future and work with people in a community to nurture and nourish the plants to create a society that is sustainable for all to live in.
Education
Take the knowledge sharing for kids beyond pages of books and walls of a school and provide a holistic understanding of society.
Humanity
Bring together people as equals and support every person in a time of need to bring out the best in a person so all may live in a better society.
Our Sponsors
27 proud supporters making Chennai greener
Registered & Audited NGO
PABT Foundation operates out of Chennai and Bengaluru, India, and is fully registered for corporate CSR and individual giving.