With the Green Carbon Fund, we offer accredited investors a unique opportunity to enter the carbon credit market, blending environmental impact with strong financial returns
- John Collins, fund manager at VanderStyn
The Green Carbon Fund provides exclusive access to high-value carbon projects, opening doors for accredited investors to a market typically reserved only for major corporations.
- John Collins, fund manager at VanderStyn
Through the Green Carbon Fund, you gain access to a high-potential, ethically driven investment avenue that balances financial objectives with crucial environmental goals, all managed by a team committed to excellence and transparency.
Access a curated selection of high-quality carbon credit projects, strategically chosen to capitalize on rising demand and prices. Our focus on early-stage investments secures significant discounts, enhancing financial growth potential.
The carbon credit market is typically dominated by large corporations due to high entry barriers. The Green Carbon Fund opens this exclusive market to our investors, allowing participation without navigating complex market regulations.
Our fund is managed by experts in both the environmental impacts and financial aspects of carbon projects. We conduct thorough due diligence to ensure projects are viable and meet high environmental standards.
We invest in projects that produce verified and certified carbon credits, ensuring they are both environmentally effective and highly marketable, meeting current and future regulatory standards and enhancing their market value.
Diversification across projects and locations reduces risk. Our early-stage investment strategy allows greater influence over outcomes, ensuring reduced risk and stable returns even amidst market fluctuations.
Invest in opportunities that offer significant financial returns while contributing positively to the planet by reducing carbon emissions and supporting sustainability goals.
Transparency is key to our operations. We ensure clear communication on investments, project status, and returns, ensuring your money supports genuinely sustainable projects with measurable impact.
Benefit from ongoing insights into the carbon market with detailed reports and educational resources to help you understand market dynamics and the impact of your investments.
The Green Carbon Fund invests in high-quality, verified carbon sequestration projects, primarily in Africa and other developing regions, leveraging the expertise of seasoned professionals.
Once these projects are thoroughly verified and credits are issued, we facilitate their sale. We secure a significant part of our returns by adopting a "payment at delivery" model. This approach ensures the integrity and credibility of our investments and our returns, allowing us to generate profits while significantly contributing to environmental sustainability.
Kenya
This investment in sustainable forest management preserves Kenya's natural resources and safeguards the water supply in a vital catchment area.
Cameroon
This project is a large-scale nature-based solutions project on the edges of the Congo Basin in Cameroon to restore nature, create forests, and promote sustainable development.
Kenya
This project focuses on manufacturing and distributing energy-efficient, locally-manufactured cookstoves to people in this project, improving their health and decreasing deforestation.
Cameroon
This project aims to reduce deforestation to decrease CO₂ released into the atmosphere through fires by providing local communities with efficient, locally-manufactured stoves.
Uganda
This project aims to rapidly restore the declining chimpanzee habitat in Bulindi, Uganda, through active afforestation and community involvement.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
This project aims to foster a thriving environment for biodiversity, enhancing livelihoods, and promoting sustainable agriculture.
Kazakhstan
This project aims to restore the Aral Sea's banks in Kazakhstan through saxaul planting, fostering resilient ecosystems, stabilising soil, and mitigating environmental challenges.
Kenya
This initiative introduces energy-efficient cookstoves to educational institutions, reducing indoor air pollution and promoting a healthier, sustainable future for education.
Diversification spreads investment risk across various projects and locations, reducing the impact of any single project's failure on the overall portfolio. This is crucial in the carbon market, where outcomes can be uncertain due to regulatory changes, technological developments, or environmental factors.
A diversified portfolio allows the fund to capitalize on opportunities in different markets and regulatory environments. This broad access can enhance returns as different markets may offer varying demand and pricing for carbon credits.
By investing in a mix of early-stage and mature projects, the portfolio balances between higher-risk, higher-reward projects and more stable, established ventures. This blend helps maintain a steady flow of returns over time.
Diversification equips the fund to better adapt to market dynamics and shifts in investor sentiment or policy landscapes. It allows for pivoting or reallocating resources to the most favorable segments without significant disruption.
Investing across a broad spectrum of projects encourages innovation. It involves funding a variety of approaches to carbon reduction, from traditional forestry projects to emerging technologies in carbon capture and storage, thereby fostering broader environmental impacts.
A diversified portfolio can address multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as climate action, life below water, and life on land, thereby appealing to a wider range of investors concerned with global sustainability.
Leading global brands are increasingly investing in carbon credits as a strategic move to compensate
for their carbon footprints, demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, and actively participate in
the global mission to restore nature.
Starbucks, the global coffeehouse chain, is harnessing its significant resources to invest in carbon credits, demonstrating a commitment to eco-friendly business practices and continued market success.
General Motors is implementing a holistic approach to become carbon neutral by 2024, which includes the use of carbon credits. For vehicle emissions from 2012–2018 alone, it retired 50 million carbon credits.
Google is committing $35 million to carbon credits, significantly integrating its economic goals with environmental responsibility. This investment positions Google as a leader in corporate environmental strategy.