Green Invest

What is happening?

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (Stern Review) reported in 2006 that human-induced climate change is a serious global threat demanding an urgent global response. Scientists globally have echoed these sentiments. The Stern Review stated that hundreds of millions of people will be adversely affected.

Sustainable development could well represent one of the biggest evolutions of the business environment since the IT boom. Empires will crumble and new fortunes will be made based on the speed and effectiveness of integrating the principles of sustainability into an organisation and the community.

While there are immense challenges with the demise of old ways of doing things and incredible opportunities are opening up for those companies with the foresight to adapt.

Business can be a vehicle for change and the principles of sustainability are forging new pathways to help overcome the challenges faced with climate change and excessive natural resource consumption.

It requires a passionate and articulate vision for the future, pursued with ingenuity and creativity to develop new business models, better designs and new ways of thinking about markets, products and services.

Sustainability is rapidly evolving. It is a means to save money and improve the bottom line (such as reducing resource use like energy and water) and as a way to generate returns at the top of the balance by developing new products and services.

Government legislation and initiatives, combined with societal and ecological trends suggest the need for sustainability is only going to increase. There is an important need for experience, knowledge, resources and proven capability to assist in making effective change.

And even though it appears so much is wrong with the world today, it actually means there are abundant opportunities for companies to make a successful business out of improving it.

Green Invest is such a company.

Green Invest aims to increase shareholder value through integrated global solutions: 

• Organic expansion and integration of existing successful assets in the sustainability sector;
• Utilising a listed corporate structure to execute complementary acquisitions;
• Integration of business portfolio to extract synergies and improve customer services;
• Gathering a professional, high quality management team to execute the vision of the company;
• Selecting the right "green" markets that offer synergies and are complementary to existing skills base;
• Using Australia as a test market for international expansion (Currently expanding Green Plumbers in the USA and India);
• Building an integrated environmental services business model to focus on delivering government water conservation, emissions reduction and reporting legislation; and
• Focusing on sustainable solutions and technologies with international application.

Why will Green Invest be successful?

The newly adopted business model of Green Invest has a number of indicators pointing to its success:

• Rising tide of public opinion supporting sustainability and climate change initiatives;
• Strategic relationships between Green Invest and the Trade Unions and Trade Associations:
• Increasing consumer demand for "green" products and services through better knowledge;
• Expansion of the Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets and the eventual introduction of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will drive commodity volume and increase demand for assessment services;
• A commitment from all side of politics in Australia in seeking climate change solutions.
• The US President's changing of their environmental policies and global flow on from those changes;
• Requirement for industry and the community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy and water consumption;
• Flow on effects from corporations complying with the National Greenhouse Energy Reporting Scheme onto the rest of the community;
• Global pressures on traditional energy markets; and
• Continuing drought conditions in Australia and USA will see increasing demand for water conservation services.

What is Green Invest's future direction?

Continuing to grow the business through:

• Organic Growth of the current businesses in Australia through the use of our unique integrated business model.
• Acquisition at the right time of a business that will complement existing suite of companies.

Continued Integration of businesses within the Group:

• Achieving synergies;
• Building on energy and water capabilities;
• Capitalise on expanded Green Plumbers membership base; and
• Target government and corporate water and energy programs and initiatives.

Expanding Nextgen:

• Capitalise on growing carbon market and No.1 position as Australia's largest carbon trader; and
• Continue broking relationships in overseas markets.