Title: Ontario Teachers’ Joins KKR as an Investor in GreenCollar

Language: English

Type: Blog/Article

Nature: Website

Published: December 9, 2021


Region: East Asia and Pacific

Country: Australia

Topic: Emission Reduction Program

Keywords: Emission Reduction Program

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GreenCollar introduced Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’) as a new long-term investor to back the company’s ambitious growth aspirations and commitment to delivering positive environmental impact at scale. With this latest investment, Ontario Teachers’ joins KKR’s Global Impact Fund as a significant shareholder in the company. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed.


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With this new investment, Ontario Teachers’ will join KKR in supporting GreenCollar’s international expansion as well as its growth across water, nature and plastics. Just this year GreenCollar celebrated the establishment of the Reef Credits Registry, validating its foundational work in establishing a world-first water quality market targeting the Great Barrier Reef. It also established a range of pilot projects to reward the positive biodiversity outcomes of good land stewardship under its Nature platform, and registered Australia’s first and the world’s second project under Verra’s plastics standard.


Updated: January 11, 2024