Unlocking a pipeline of high-integrity nature-based carbon projects, in partnership with the people who have looked after this Country for sixty thousand years.
Photograph · Tourism Western Australia
We connect businesses with nature-based carbon projects they can stand behind. Buyers commit first, so the best projects come to us.
Every project is assessed with Keystone, a 168-indicator framework built by Earthly and applied to more than a thousand projects worldwide. Buyers get credits that hold up in front of a board and an auditor.
We connect the right finance at the right time, so nature restoration can be incubated, built and scaled rather than stall at the pilot stage.
It sits at the heart of every decision we make.
Keystone is the tool we use to rate it.
Our work is a pipeline of nature-based carbon projects that restore whole landscapes.
First Nations are the first and authentic stewards of Country. Their leadership is fundamental.
Nature restoration, grounded in local leadership, is our ambition.
Photograph · The Kimberley, Western Australia
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters where this work happens, and their enduring connection to Country, culture and community.
We assess the strength and quality of every project's partnership with Traditional Owners, and we build that into how each project is governed and priced. Partnership quality is the right way to work. It is also what buyers pay a premium for.
measure the strength of each project's partnership with Traditional Owners.
Biome runs on Earthly's assessment infrastructure: the Keystone framework, the Prestone screening tool, and the data from screening nature projects for corporate buyers including Deloitte, GSK and S&P Global. In Australia, Biome holds the rights to these tools.
A respected Noongar leader who negotiated Australia's largest native title settlement: A$1.3 billion across 200,000 square kilometres of Southwest Western Australia.
Former Chair of Infrastructure WA, with long-standing relationships across WA government, agriculture and conservation.
Twenty years building purpose-driven ventures. Co-founded Earthly, which gives Biome its assessment tools and buyer network.
Institutional finance background at Credit Suisse. Leads fund structuring and the commercial build.
Independent Scientific and Indigenous Advisory Boards are being constituted, with Founders Factory Australia as a foundational partner.
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If Biome sounds like your kind of work, we'd like to hear from you.
oliver@biome.fund