Vertree

What Vertree does

Vertree Partners Limited is a London-headquartered carbon solutions company founded in 2020 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hartree Partners, a global energy and commodities merchant partly owned by Oaktree Capital Group (majority-owned by Brookfield Asset Management). The company operates an integrated carbon platform that serves corporates, institutions, investors, governments, and project developers through four service modules: Carbon & Climate Advisory, Carbon Trading & Risk Management, High-Quality Carbon Credits access, and Project Development, Financing & Investment. Its core technology stack includes a rigorous due diligence framework covering land titles, carbon stocks, and deforestation licences, supported by biodiversity monitoring capabilities such as LiDAR-based carbon measurement, satellite imagery, camera traps, and automated alert systems. Vertree earns revenue through transaction fees on carbon credit trading, professional services fees on advisory mandates, and transaction-related income from project financing and investment activities.

The company targets large enterprise clients across compliance and voluntary carbon markets, with a sales-led go-to-market executed through direct engagement and the international office network of its parent Hartree Partners (London, Singapore, Geneva, Hamburg, Mexico City). Vertree has secured multi-year and multi-deal relationships with energy and industrial majors including Sasol (three-year carbon credits and climate investments agreement), Kansai Electric Power Group (LNG supply coupled with Australian nature-based carbon investment), and Tokyo Gas (Asia-focused JCM-aligned co-development), alongside strategic alliances with project developers brCarbon (Brazilian Amazon Grouped Forestry Project) and ecosecurities (Project Araucaria, targeting $1.5bn and 300+ million tonnes of credits over 30 years). The company holds ICROA accreditation and IETA membership, signalling adherence to industry codes of best practice in high-integrity carbon transactions.

Name

Vertree

Legal name

Vertree Partners Limited

Website

https://www.vertree.earth

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Vertree Partners is a London-based carbon solutions platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of Hartree Partners that advises corporates, institutions, investors, and project developers on carbon strategy, trading, project financing, and high-integrity carbon credits across global compliance and voluntary markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carbon Markets & Climate Advisory

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Finance Strategy (CapEx planning, green finance, incentives & grants) (EUABAKAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote Sensing & Geospatial MRV (Satellite, Aerial, LiDAR, SAR) (EUABACAF), Tokenization, Digital MRV-Linked Credits & On-Chain Carbon Infrastructure (Digital assets, provenance) (EUABAAAE), Digital MRV & Traceability Platforms (dMRV, APIs, Data Pipelines, Tokenization Support) (EUABACAK), Carbon Market MRV (Offsets/Projects: Verra/Gold Standard/ART; registry reporting) (EUAHADAF), Climate Finance, Carbon Markets & MRV Systems (BPADALAB)

Keywords

• Carbon credit trading
• Carbon market advisory
• Voluntary carbon market
• Carbon project financing
• Climate investment services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Carbon Credit Trading: Trading of high-quality carbon credits across compliance markets and voluntary commitments, leveraging deep knowledge of market dynamics and global commodities
2. Carbon & Climate Advisory: Advisory services helping clients understand carbon exposure, develop strategies for carbon market participation and achieve decarbonisation goals
3. Project Financing & Investment: Providing financing to high-integrity project developers to scale and realise maximum environmental and social impact, linking developers around the world with markets and investors

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Vertree operates an integrated carbon solutions platform that provides organisations with access to global carbon markets, high-quality carbon credits, and climate investment opportunities. The platform encompasses carbon and climate advisory services, risk-managed carbon trading across compliance and voluntary markets, sourcing of high-integrity carbon credits, and project development financing for nature-based and technology-based emissions reduction projects worldwide.

Product overview

Vertree offers a unified platform called the Vertree Carbon Platform, which integrates multiple service modules including Carbon & Climate Advisory, Carbon Trading & Risk Management, High-Quality Carbon Credits access, and Project Development, Financing & Investment. The platform is designed to provide clients and partners with comprehensive access to all aspects of carbon strategy, investment, and market participation. Founded in 2020 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hartree Partners, Vertree enables companies and institutions to invest in nature and climate technologies, access high-integrity environmental commodities, directly finance emissions reduction projects, partner with project developers, and provide expertise in voluntary and compliance markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Vertree Carbon Platform Integrated carbon solutions platform providing organisations with access to all aspects of carbon strategy, investment, and market participation, encompassing advisory, trading, credit access, and project development services. Designed for corporates, institutions, investors, governments and project developers globally.
• Carbon & Climate Advisory Consulting service that helps corporate and institutional clients understand carbon exposure, assess evolving policy impacts, and develop strategies for carbon market participation aligned with decarbonisation goals.
• Carbon Trading & Risk Management Execution of risk-managed carbon transactions and investments across compliance markets and voluntary commitments, leveraging deep knowledge of market dynamics and global commodities expertise.
• High-Quality Carbon Credits Access to existing and future supply of high-quality carbon credits and project development opportunities, supported by rigorous due diligence and expert on-the-ground partners such as ecosecurities and brCarbon.
• Project Development, Financing & Investment Financing and support for high-integrity project developers to scale projects and realise environmental and social impact, linking developers worldwide with markets and investors through Hartree Partners' balance sheet.

Quantifiable outcome

• Brazilian Amazon Grouped Forestry Project: 30,000+ hectares protected, 15 properties engaged, 794 animal species monitored (334 endemic, 34 threatened)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Tokyo GascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 March 2024Hartree Partners Singapore and Tokyo Gas announced strategic partnership to co-develop nature-based projects focused mainly within Asia. Vertree Partners supports Tokyo Gas in jointly partnering in project investment to generate stable supply of high-quality carbon credits aligned with Japan's Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM). Projects will prioritise developing countries in Asia for JCM eligibility.
• Kansai Electric Power GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 December 2023Kansai Electric Power Group signed a binding term agreement with Hartree Partners for LNG supply coupled with investment in a nature-based carbon project in Australia. Vertree Partners, as Hartree's carbon market arm, supports Kansai Electric to access future supply of high-integrity carbon credits to support its Zero Carbon Vision. First deal of its kind in Japan coupling LNG supply with carbon investment.
• Environmental Protection Credit Market (EPCM) AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 December 2023Vertree Partners joined SK Group and other institutions at COP28 to establish Asia's first alliance for the Voluntary Carbon Market expansion. The EPCM is a technology-based pre-issuance carbon credit market enabling investment in future issuances of fully verified technological carbon removal credits. Alliance includes SK Inc., SK E&S, ecosecurities, Shinhan Investment Corp, PwC Consulting, Korea Chamber of Commerce, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Korea South-East Power, BVRIO, and Seoul National University Climate Tech Center.
• KitacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 October 2023Vertree became a Founding Member of Kita's new Carbon Supplier Pool. The pool provides replacement carbon credits in the event of insurance claims under Kita's Carbon Purchase Protection Cover. Founding members also include Everland, Pachama and Respira. This groundbreaking approach allows carbon insurance claims to be paid in replacement carbon credits.
• SasolcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 September 2023Sasol, a South African global chemicals and energy company, announced a three-year agreement with Vertree Partners for access to high-quality carbon credits and climate investments. Vertree helps Sasol devise pathways for decarbonisation, manage associated risks and make high-quality investments in carbon reductions and removals as part of Sasol's journey to net zero.
• ecosecuritiescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 October 2022Hartree Partners and ecosecurities launched Project Araucaria to generate $1.5bn to support habitat restoration across Latin America. The project aims to create over 300 million tonnes of voluntary carbon credits over 30 years through nature-based carbon reduction and removal projects in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Ecosecurities provides on-the-ground expertise and project development.
• brCarboncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Strategic alliance formed since 2022 between Vertree and brCarbon to scale forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. The partnership focuses on the VCS registered Brazilian Amazon Grouped Forestry Project, an Avoided Planned Deforestation (APD) REDD+ project protecting over 30,000 hectares of biodiverse rainforest. Finance from carbon credit sales compensates landowners and funds local communities.
• Hartree PartnerscoreOthers · 1 January 2020Vertree is a fully-owned subsidiary of Hartree Partners, a leading energy and commodities merchant with over 25 years experience in physical, financial, energy and commodities markets. Since 2015, Hartree is partly owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Group, which is majority-owned by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. This ownership structure enables substantial investment at corporate and project level.
• AMPYR Solar EuropeminorOthersHartree has interests in AMPYR Solar Europe, a major new solar enterprise with combined pipeline of over 6GW of large scale ground-mount and rooftop solar projects and a team of over 60 experienced renewable professionals.
• Hartree SolutionsminorOthersHartree Solutions invests in cutting-edge on-site energy generation and storage technologies for customers, optimising use to reduce energy costs, lower carbon emissions and increase long-term competitiveness.
• IontreeminorOthersIontree is at the forefront of developing, engineering and operating battery energy storage systems (BESS), assisting in introduction of considerable renewable energy into power grids contributing to carbon reduction goals.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• South Pole Group: Global carbon solutions provider offering advisory, project development, and trading across voluntary and compliance markets — directly comparable to Vertree's integrated platform serving corporates, investors and project developers.
• Climate Advisers: Independent advisory firm focused on carbon markets, policy, and high-integrity project origination; directly comparable to Vertree's advisory arm targeting corporates and project developers.
• ACT Group: Global commodities and environmental markets trading house with strong carbon desk serving compliance and voluntary buyers; comparable to Vertree's trading-and-advisory model built off commodity-market heritage.
• Terrapass: Carbon credit and advisory provider serving businesses seeking offsetting and decarbonization strategies; comparable to Vertree's B2B carbon credit distribution and advisory offering.
• ecosecurities: Carbon project developer and consultancy with two decades of nature-based and engineered project expertise; a strategic partner of Vertree on Project Araucaria and therefore a directly comparable peer in origination and project structuring.
• Carbon Growth Partners: Carbon advisory and project finance firm connecting corporates with high-integrity project developers; closely comparable to Vertree's advisory plus project-financing revenue streams.

Emerging players

• Sylvera: Independent carbon credit ratings and analytics provider using satellite data and ML to rate project quality; comparable in using remote sensing and analytics to underpin high-integrity carbon project assessment.
• Pachama: Technology-led carbon credit marketplace focused on nature-based solutions with remote sensing verification; comparable MRV/digital monitoring angle and a co-founding member with Vertree in Kita's Carbon Supplier Pool.
• ClimeFi: Carbon project finance marketplace connecting project developers with corporates seeking high-integrity credits; comparable to Vertree's project-financing and direct-investment capabilities.
• BeZero Carbon: Carbon credit ratings agency offering independent ratings and analytics for voluntary market credits; adjacent to Vertree's due-diligence framework and supports similar buyer demand for integrity verification.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments1 record

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