Community Investment and Philanthropic Activity > Partnerships Alongside our partners, we are accelerating a Led by National Geographic Explorer As part of the pledge, our efforts will sustainable future by supporting the transition Victoria Herrmann, the project, Preserving strive to accelerate the pace of innovation to a low carbon economy and are also leaning Legacies: A Future for our Past, aims to around amplifying the carbon removal into nature-based solutions to protect, enhance develop the capacity of communities in benefits of forests and will take shape access to, and increase stewardship of natural and around these landmarks to visualize in the form of a partnership to share resources and ecosystems. Through these climate impacts on a local scale and equip knowledge, tools, and experience, Accelerate a efforts, we hope to sustain our planet’s health them with scientifically proven methods and support of local communities, Sustainable and the well-being of local communities that to mitigate these effects and conserve the nature, and biodiversity. We have also depend on our planet for their livelihood. sites. There are ten heritage sites included committed to scaling Manulife Investment Future in the project. Management’s carbon-focused forestry National Geographic Society investments and sequestration of CO2 1t.org from the atmosphere through the forests Manulife and National Geographic Society we manage over a period of five years. launched a global partnership to deliver on During the year, Manulife made a pledge to an ambitious project to safeguard several 1t.org, which is the World Economic Forum’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites from the impact Trillion Trees platform, that serves the of climate change and protect the physical and global movement to conserve, restore and financial well-being of the communities that grow a trillion trees by 2030, in support of depend on those sites for their livelihood. the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. 2022 Public Accountability Statement 7