Invest in Carbon by Gregory Hannan

A New Way to Invest

For generations, wealth has been built by extracting value from the Earth.
The next generation of wealth will be built by protecting it.

Carbon credits have transformed forests, wetlands, and natural ecosystems into globally traded environmental assets, creating opportunities for investors, governments, Indigenous communities, and businesses to work together toward a common goal.

This book is not about theory.

It is the story of a journey that began in 2000, developing carbon projects in some of the world's most remote regions, learning from both success and failure, and witnessing the evolution of a market that has grown from a niche environmental concept into a multi-billion-dollar global industry.

Whether you are an investor, entrepreneur, policymaker, landowner, or simply curious about the future of climate finance, this book will help you understand how carbon credits are created, why they matter, how they are traded, and where the greatest opportunities—and challenges—lie.

The forests of the world are no longer simply landscapes.

• The books concept is built upon several fundamental principles:
• Accessibility — making participation possible for ordinary investors.
• Transparency — providing greater visibility into project development and carbon asset creation.
• Community Partnership — ensuring customary landowners remain central beneficiaries of conservation.
• Environmental Integrity — supporting projects that produce genuine, measurable, and independently verified environmental outcomes.
• Long-Term Investment — recognising forests not simply as landscapes to be preserved, but as valuable natural assets capable of generating sustainable economic returns.
• This book is therefore much more than an explanation of carbon credits.

• ✓The Authors personal experiences of how carbon has been transformed from an environmental concept into an internationally traded financial instrument.
• ✓1. The Compliance Carbon Market
• ✓2. The Voluntary Carbon Market
• ✓Although the motivations differ, both markets pursue the same overarching goal to "to place measurable economic value on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the natural environment".
• ✓The book opens up options for private investors to participate in markets traditionally dominated by banks and institutional investors.