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Carbon farming: good for farmers, good for the planet

Working with land managers to improve environmental outcomes and regenerate the land

 
 

Restoring the future – investing in a healthy Great Barrier Reef

Working in partnership with landholders to improve water quality and farming business goals

 
 

Nature positive market development

Rewarding the positive biodiversity outcomes of good land stewardship

 
 

Achieving greater plastic sustainability goals

A world-first plastic offset market reducing the disposal of single use plastic

 
 

Valuing the environment

Bringing nature, science and people together to make a tangible difference to the environment

 
 

8 things to know about carbon farming

Our carbon farming projects enhance productive enterprise while caring for the environment

GreenCollar acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of the land and waters on which we live and work. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.  We acknowledge, respect and strive to honour the deep spiritual attachment and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to country.

220
Australian

Projects

 

We work in partnership with farmers, graziers, traditional owners and other land managers to integrate high quality, high integrity projects into their existing operations and deliver a range of environmental, economic and social benefits.

132*
Million*

ACCUs contracted

 

Not only are we one of the largest suppliers of nature-based ACCUs, we are also at the forefront of the voluntary market, actively working to generate demand for high quality, high integrity ACCUs and create new opportunities through new markets. (*Includes 40 million ACCUs delivered as at 19 September 2024.)

50+
Thousand*

Reef Credits delivered

 

Reef Credits is a highly credible environmental market supporting the future of our national icon by rewarding land managers for on-farm actions that deliver measurable water quality outcomes. (*As at 19 September 2024.)

Benefits

We believe that by valuing environmental action and outcomes, we can drive impact at scale, creating methodologies and markets that ensure the environment is on the balance sheet and money goes where it matters most. Our projects have delivered environmental, economic and social benefits, including:

  • Improved biodiversity
  • Increased ground cover
  • Improved soil quality
  • Better water retention
  • Reduced erosion or run-off
  • Improved water quality
  • Reduced plastic in the waste stream.
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  • Additional, diversified income stream
  • Investment in infrastructure
  • Increased productivity
  • Long term business sustainability
  • Drought resilience.
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  • Creating opportunities to revitalise regional communities
  • Often providing a second income that can help keep farming families on the land.
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BUYERS

Holistic solutions to reduce your environmental footprint

As one of the largest providers of nature based ACCUs in the market, we understand what it takes to deliver high quality, high integrity and high impact environmental credits. We work across the carbon, water, plastics and biodiversity markets to develop reduction and offset strategies that that help organisations with their environmental, social and governance (ESG) and net-zero transition strategies. With GreenCollar, you can be sure that the projects you support deliver real environmental outcomes that are independently verified and backed by the latest science.

LAND MANAGERS

Your property, your business and your decisions

GreenCollar works in partnership with farmers, graziers and other land managers to design projects that align with your operational goals. Undertaking an environmental project with us means you get paid for environmental outcomes resulting from land management practices that deliver environmental, economic and social benefits for your business as well as the environment.

TRADITIONAL OWNERS

Building the health of country

By working together with communities to gain consent, create partnerships and collaborate on projects, we aim to restore the health of country and support the aspirations of Indigenous communities.

RESEARCH

Make GreenCollar your partner for climate action

Join us to develop world-class research for environmental managers and stakeholders to use in ecosystem services markets, land-use planning, and decision-making. Our research program focusses on improving our capacity to understand, manage and conserve biodiversity, develop new science-based methods and processes for existing markets, and address some of the world’s biggest environmental challenges, including plastic pollution, water quality and deforestation.

WORK WITH US

We exist to value the environment, because the most precious resource for life on our planet needs to be properly valued and accounted for.

We believe that by valuing environmental action and outcomes, we can drive impact at scale, creating methodologies and markets that ensure the environment is on the balance sheet and money goes where it matters most.

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Our Latest News

15 Oct 2024

A major leap in the evolution of biodiversity markets as Accounting for Nature® takes over NaturePlus® Standard

Media release: Nature and biodiversity markets worldwide have taken a crucial step forward with Accounting for Nature® taking on the role of independent administrator of the NaturePlus® biodiversity standard.
19 Sep 2024

Ground-breaking Reef Credit method for grazing land management approved and released by Eco-Markets Australia

Media release: The Grazing Land Management (GLM) method, developed via a partnership between Verterra Ecological Engineering, AgriProve and GreenCollar for use under the Reef Credit Scheme, has been approved and released by Eco-Markets Australia.
17 May 2024

GreenCollar Board announces new Chair

Media release: GreenCollar is pleased to announce that existing Board Director, Brendan Foran, has been appointed Chair of the Board as of 9 May. Brendan, who has been a Director on the GreenCollar Board since December 2023, brings to the position enormous executive and leadership experience, as well as expertise in and life-long commitment to natural resource and environmental issues.
27 Mar 2024

How Reef Credits deliver real, measurable, verifiable outcomes to the Great Barrier Reef

Speech: 2024 Climate Investor Forum. Poor water quality flowing from the surrounding catchment area is a very serious threst to the health of Great Barrier Reef. One solution is the Reef Credits scheme, a mechanism by which a clean water market has been established to prevent fine sediment and Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen polluting its waters.
26 Feb 2024

GreenCollar makes strategic investment in EnergyLink Services

Media release: Australia’s largest environmental markets developer and investor, GreenCollar, has made an investment in carbon, energy and sustainability-focused advisory firm, EnergyLink Services, forging a strategic partnership that will increase end-to-end services to business, particularly agribusiness, in their efforts to decarbonise, satisfy net zero commitments, assess and mitigate impact on nature.
10 Jan 2024

REDD can be high quality: Here’s how

Opinion piece: It is easy to criticize and there can be no question that accurately accounting for emission reductions by protecting forests, restoring grasslands, or implementing agroforestry practices is complex. But this doesn’t mean we can’t transparently and conservatively estimate nature-based emission reductions.
06 Oct 2023

GreenCollar’s market leading NaturePlus™ biodiversity scheme begins issuing credits

Media Release: Friday 6 October 2023: After more than three years of development, testing and validation, environmental markets investor and project developer, GreenCollar today announced issuance of over 8,500 NaturePlus™...
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