GreenCollar joins Peoples Forests Partnership

GreenCollar — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:59:40 +0000

Media Release: GreenCollar to help tackle global deforestation through the Peoples Forests Partnership

GreenCollar is proud to be a facilitating partner of the Peoples Forests Partnership (PFP), an industry first coalition that aims to mobilise private investment in community-driven forest conservation and restoration projects and set a high standard for equitable, accessible and culturally appropriate mechanisms through which Indigenous Peoples, traditional owners and local communities (IPLC) can engage with climate finance.

With more than 100 world leaders at COP26 promising to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, Peoples Forest Partnership will help rectify the imbalance of Indigenous Peoples managing one-fifth of tropical and subtropical forest carbon and conserving 80 percent of all biodiversity while receiving less than one percent of international climate assistance.

GreenCollar is one of five facilitating partners alongside Forest Trends, RECOFTC, Wildlife Works, and Everland. Together the partners aim to mobilise at least $20billion per year in long-term, private sector investments as well as public funding, channelling it directly to forest communities by 2030 to reward their efforts to successfully stop deforestation.

Robert O’Sullivan, Head of International Projects for GreenCollar outlined the potential of the scheme; “If IPLCs receive direct and equitable access to climate finance there is tremendous potential to rapidly protect and restore international forests at scale and help meet the global pledges to halt deforestation by 2030.

“IPLCs are not limited to small, isolated projects. Indigenous and traditional communities manage global forest carbon stores equal to at least 33 times the worlds’ energy emissions in 2017. This under-represents the amount of stored carbon managed by IPLCs, and these forests are at risk if we do not move quickly to support communities in protecting them.”

PFP estimates that channelling funding directly to IPLCs could reduce CO2 emissions from deforestation each year by at least 2 billion tonnes, protecting at least 500 million hectares of threatened tropical forest and its biodiversity, while supporting IPLC livelihoods.

The initial stage of PFP is an open discussion with interested stakeholders to offer their input on documents of engagement and operating principles, including membership criteria for high-integrity community-based projects, project developers, investors. A draft set of documents has been developed in consultation with select Indigenous Peoples leadership and other stakeholders.

Robert O’Sullivan commented; “GreenCollar works to the highest standards of free, prior and informed consent across Australia and in the Asia Pacific region, engaging with Indigenous Peoples, traditional owners and local communities to understand how its projects can best align with their aspirations.

“This new partnership is an opportunity to establish high operating principles on a global scale and better recognise the important role Indigenous Peoples, traditional owners and local communities play in safeguarding and protecting vast carbon stores worldwide,” he said.

Interested parties can submit an expression of interest to become a member or participate in the public consultation here.

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GreenCollar and AgriProve announce industry-first partnership

GreenCollar — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:00:40 +0000

GreenCollar and AgriProve announce industry-first partnership that brings full suite of nature-based carbon projects together

Media release: Australia’s leading environmental markets project developer and investor, GreenCollar, has today announced a new partnership with leading soil carbon developer AgriProve.

In an industry first, GreenCollar and AgriProve will integrate the full suite of available nature-based carbon farming methods to make carbon projects more accessible across Australia’s diverse landscapes and agricultural enterprises.

The partnership will provide farmers, graziers and other land managers improved opportunities to grow farm gate revenue via superior quality credits that deliver greater environmental impact tied to improved agricultural production outcomes.

Bringing the full suite of nature-based projects together will allow land managers to streamline project operations and take a whole of landscape approach. This will unlock the full economic and environmental potential of carbon sequestration through improved land management and means that carbon farming may be possible on properties or areas of a property that were not previously accessible. This could include smaller farm holdings, or those in higher rainfall or intensive agriculture areas focused on implementing regenerative agricultural outcomes

GreenCollar will immediately seek to integrate soil carbon opportunities into projects within its existing portfolio and will be able to offer soil carbon to new partners coming onboard. Soil carbon will also extend to its Reef Credit projects meaning land managers within the Great Barrier Reef catchment can also see improved rewards for on-farm actions that improve water quality flowing to the Reef.

Soil projects will also be integrated into GreenCollar’s emerging biodiversity portfolio, enabling the full impact of positive land stewardship and environmental projects to be valued. This will allow land managers working with GreenCollar to realise the full value of carbon sequestration and biodiversity improvement both above and below ground, generating premium pricing opportunities, greater returns, and ultimately driving innovation and better terms of trade across the agricultural sector.

GreenCollar’s Chief Commercial Officer, Dave Moore, said: “this partnership will see the agriculture sector engage in projects that utilise all available carbon farming methodologies, and even open up project opportunities to properties that may have previously been unsuited to nature-based methodologies. This means greater measurable environmental benefit for each credit generated, which represents additional revenue through the farm gate and flowing back into regional communities

“Adding soil to our preliminary biodiversity framework will further boost the supply of premium credits to the voluntary market and increase investment into positive environmental impact at scale.”

Managing Director of AgriProve, Matthew Warnken, said: “The nature of carbon farming projects in Australia has until this stage been largely centered on nature-based above ground solutions including Human Induced Regeneration and Avoided Deforestation. Through this partnership, soil carbon projects will be more readily included in carbon farming solutions in Australia, offering farmers greater additionality and bio-diverse opportunities from their land.”

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GreenCollar joins Peoples Forests Partnership

GreenCollar and AgriProve announce industry-first partnership

GreenCollar and AgriProve announce industry-first partnership that brings full suite of nature-based carbon projects together