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Mohammed Alkhalid - Saudi Arabian, West Asia

2020 Winner | Mechanical Engineer | Saudi Arabian

NABATIK is a platform that gives everyone the accessibility to plant trees anywhere in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The process is made possible by digitizing the local nurseries and farms in order to allow customers or businesses to reach them easily. The platform also helps the nurseries and farms with logistics in order to optimize their operation and minimize their costs. Using our platform, we encourage businesses to engage their Corporate Social Responsibility and offer them solutions to offset their carbon footprint by rapidly planting trees using our tools. We also help businesses measure their impact (such as carbon dioxide absorption, air quality improvement and energy conservation to name a few) thereby incentivising them to plant more and gain more carbon credits.

My love for planting trees was seeded in me at a young age. I was 7, when my father taught me how to plant my first tree in an empty plot. He told me to, "Do good and forget about it". After 20 years, I stumbled upon what seemed to be my plant which had become a magnificent tree that embraced me by its shade. It was an emotional experience. Since then, I took a personal pledge to make this experience accessible to everyone in an effort to transform the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia into a greener place. That’s why I built NABATIK. I was a finalist in the MIT Enterprise Forum (Saudi Arabia) startup competition Social Track and NABATIK won first place in a Sustainable Development Goal hackathon sponsored by the United Nations in Bahrain.

Disclaimer: NOTE: This content was shared online for the 2019 cycle of the Young Champions of the Earth programme and has not been updated. This listing does not constitute any endorsement by nor status with the UN Environment Programme.

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