Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreencollarGCS/
We are Australia’s largest environmental markets investor, natural resource manager and conservation-for-profit organisation.
At GreenCollar we see the environment as fundamental to social well-being and economic prosperity.
GreenCollar is one of Australia’s largest environmental markets investors and project developers. We strive to prove that the best way to achieve lasting environmental benefits is to place value on the environment and allow markets to provide incentives and repayment for sustainable practice and repair.
We are at the forefront of helping farmers, graziers and other landholders identify and create commercial opportunities through projects that enhance their productive enterprise and care for the environment.
As a young company, founded in 2008, GreenCollar developed some of the first projects under the Carbon Farming Initiative (2011) and is now the largest provider of carbon abatement in Australia. We have established over 100 projects across rural and regional areas working alongside private landholders, research organisations, government, natural resource management (NRM) and community groups.
GreenCollar invests in environmental markets including carbon, renewable energy, water quality and biodiversity conservation in some of Australia’s most threatened environments. We are committed to working with institutional investors and the corporate sector to unlock catalytic finance and develop commercially viable projects.
In 2017 GreenCollar created the first, innovative market solution for improving water quality in catchments of the Great Barrier Reef. The Reef Credit Initiative rewards farmers and other land managers for providing ecosystem services and improving land management practices.
GreenCollar is committed to working with landholders to design appropriate, individual projects which complement existing operations while achieving positive commercial and environmental outcomes. GreenCollar possesses full end-to-end, in-house expertise in the development, management, legal and technical implementation of commercial environmental projects.
We focus on building and maintaining positive relationships with our clients on-site and are dedicated to going above and beyond routine compliance and monitoring.
****************
CARBON FARMING
GreenCollar works with graziers, farmers and land managers throughout Australia to develop carbon projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).
Our projects enhance productive enterprise while caring for the environment. Our team of project development and technical specialists can help you earn a resilient, drought-proof income.
************
James Schulz – CEO – Director – Co-founder
James is the Chief Executive and Co-founder of GreenCollar. James’s interests and expertise lie in exploring how environmental markets can offer innovative solutions that lead to real environmental, economic and social outcomes. He has used his skills all over the world, working across a range of organisations including the World Bank, the African Union and the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
James is a highly regarded advisor to government departments and organisations. He has been involved in the development and implementation of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, environmental markets and natural resource management. James has presented at high profile conferences including the Global Carbon Expo and annual UNFCCC climate talks, as well as at regional events such as the annual Carbon Market Institute and New Zealand Carbon Expo.
Most recently James’s passion for frontier industries has led him to set up Earth Space Robotics, which invests in start-ups focusing on space exploration. He is also adding a Masters in Astronomy to his existing degrees in Anthropology and International Relations
Lewis Tyndall – Co-founder
Lewis has always been at the forefront of financial innovation, policy and law in the creation of environmental solutions. Before co-founding GreenCollar, Lewis founded the Climate Roundtable in 2006. He has been a lawyer for over 20 years, practising in equity, commercial and environmental law. Lewis practised at the NSW bar and holds a Master of Laws with a major in environmental law.
Lewis has also been a director of several public companies and advised governments and major corporations in South East Asia on emissions and environmental impacts. Lewis has developed a range of protocols, policies, and strategies for compliance with the Australian Government’s Carbon Farming Initiative. He speaks widely in Australia and overseas on environmental markets and the carbon economy including at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) events and the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) which established the global Paris Agreement to reduce emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
In his heyday, Lewis was a part of the crew that established the Queenscliff Boardriders Club in 1978. He can still be found hanging-ten near his residence in Byron Bay.
