Valuing the environment
We see the environment as fundamental to social well-being and economic prosperity.
GreenCollar is one of Australia’s largest environmental market investors and project developers. We aim to prove that the best way to achieve lasting environmental outcomes is to place a value on the environment and enable markets to provide incentives and payment for sustainable land management practices and ecosystem services.
We help farmers, graziers, traditional owners and other land managers to identify and create commercial opportunities through nature-based projects that enhance their productive agricultural enterprise while caring for the environment and delivering tangible social and economic benefits.
We work with land managers, corporates, government, research organisations, traditional owners and other stakeholders to create methodologies and markets that place the environment on the balance sheet, and ensure money flows to the people living and working on the land that deliver environmental benefits for all.
Partner with us to make your positive environmental impact
We work in partnership with farmers, graziers, traditional owners and other land managers to develop high quality, high integrity projects that deliver economic, environmental and social benefits.
We help land managers leverage markets to finance on-farm work that drives positive environmental impact at scale, while maintaining agriculture operations and delivering key benefits to their core business.
We work at the forefront of the voluntary market, generating new demand for high quality, high integrity ACCUs and creating new environmental markets based on water quality, biodiversity and plastics. Everything we do is backed by science and led by the land.
We work with corporates, investors and financiers to develop emission reduction and offset purchasing strategies, as well as generate new products and achieve net zero environmental targets.
Why partner with GreenCollar?
We are one of Australia’s largest environmental market investors, natural resource managers and conservation-for-profit organisations.
An Australian environmental market developer and investor
We are one of Australia’s largest and most successful environmental market project developers and investors.
- A leading generator of nature-based carbon credits in the Australian market.
- An existing portfolio of 200+ registered and contracted projects covering over 10 million hectares and forecast to generate 132+ million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) as well as Reef Credits, plastic credits and nature credits.
- Across every nature-based method and developing more.
- Established a world-first water quality market in Reef Credits to address the health of the Great Barrier Reef.
- Running a world-first plastic credit project in far north Queensland under Verra’s Plastic Standard.
- Developed and explanding NaturePlus™ , our world-leading biodiversity credit scheme.
Impactful science-based climate solutions
- Our diverse portfolio of carbon, water quality, nature, and plastic projects support many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including ‘Climate action’ and ‘Decent work and economic growth’.
- We always aim to affect the greatest impact possible, and we aim for every project to have additional benefits for local communities and the land – such as improved biodiversity, better soil quality, community investment and/or local jobs.
- We are grounded in science and a continual drive to push boundaries and solve problems. We go further to deliver measurable and verifiable environmental outcomes at scale.
Delivering more than just carbon
We embed sustainability within agricultural businesses to deliver high quality, high integrity environmental credits without impacting productivity. Working across the carbon market and developing new markets based on water quality, biodiversity and plastics, our ‘paddock-tested’ team work in partnership to design and implement projects that complement existing operations and maximise both commercial and environmental outcomes.
All our projects deliver additional benefits over and above the offset, helping to regenerate the land, create or protect native habitat, boost long-term productivity and promote business sustainability. For communities, our projects often provide an additional income stream that can support the farming business, their families and the landscapes they manage.
Leaders in the industry
We are a pioneer in new environmental markets and methodologies.
- We helped establish Australia’s Carbon Industry Code of Conduct. The code quickly expanded to cover all projects funded by the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund and the voluntary carbon market.
- In 2020, we developed the world’s first environmental market, the Reef Credits Scheme, which incentivises water quality improvements across the Great Barrier Reef. It is an independently audited and verified voluntary market that reduces the flow of sediment and dissolved inorganic nitrogen onto the Great Barrier Reef.
- We are working on pilot nature projects to measure, verify and monetise the significant benefits from habitat, flora and fauna protection.
- We are running projects with banana growers in far north Queensland as part of the evolving global plastics offset market.
- We are a founding and interim executive committee member of The Peoples Forest Partnership – an important international initiative which aims to mobilise private investment in community-driven forest conservation and restoration projects. It also aims to set a high standard for equitable, accessible, and culturally appropriate mechanisms through which Indigenous peoples, traditional owners and local communities can engage with climate finance.
Most bankable counter-party by size and scale in Australia
GreenCollar is proud to be the most bankable counter-party by size and scale in Australia, backed by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. As a certified B corporation and provider of environmental initiatives that reduce the impact of climate change, GreenCollar’s core business directly contributes toward Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate action), and supports other sustainable goals, including SDG 15 (Life on land) and SDG 14 (Life below water).
Core values
We believe that people, science, nature and finance can be used together to make a tangible difference to the environment. 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 investment goes where it matters most.
We walk the walk
GreenCollar is a Certified B Corporation® and certified Carbon Neutral by Climate Active.
BCorp certification recognises and verifies GreenCollar’s commitment to social and environmental responsibility.
We are part of a global community of over 2,000 corporations who meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability.