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Thanks to Green Loans, a new Heavy Finance investment product, the answer is yes!

Green Loans allow you to provide financing for environmental solutions making a real positive change to our climate while making a great return on your investment. At HeavyFinance, we open the door for retail and institutional investors to the growing market of carbon certificates, offering an opportunity for a significant return with a significant impact. We encourage you to learn more about the potential of the carbon certificates market on our blog.

A carbon certificate is a unit of exchange that companies and organisations can use to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. One carbon certificate is equivalent to one metric ton of greenhouse gases removed from the atmosphere, and farmers engaged in no-till practice on average remove 2.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare from the atmosphere every year.

As the current market price of a single carbon certificate is within the range of 25 - 35 EUR, only one hectare of agricultural land with adopted no-till practice can generate 58 - 81 EUR per year.

As more and more companies are targeting zero net emissions goals, the demand and therefore the price of carbon certificates is expected to increase over time. Moreover, as all HeavyFinance sustainability projects are verifiable and accurately track their actual carbon dioxide sequestration, the quality of our carbon certificates can be sold at a market premium, further increasing the return on investment. Read more on carbon certificate pricing in our blog and learn why HeavyFinance provides you with the best exposure to the carbon market.

This project is aimed to collect funds for the development of Lithuanian crops farm. The farmer has been engaged in crop production since 2003. She grows wheat and oilseed rape on her farm in the Šakiai district.

The farm’s heavy machinery fleet consists of a tractor, a combine harvester, and other smaller agricultural implements. The project owner is borrowing to increase her working capital.

Besides, the farmer has more goals for 2023. She is planning to increase the farmland to 125 ha and start sowing beans.

This is not the first project owner's loan on the HeavyFinance platform - the farmer has already repaid loan LT0000215, more than half of the existing loan LT0000130 and is diligently making payments for loan LT0001298. 

Area of declared land: 98,79 ha from which 40,29 ha is owned by the farmer.

The principal will be repaid by the farmer in regular instalments over the span of 3 years in accordance with repayment schedule.

All 63,19 hectares of arable land are included in the Green Loan program. It is estimated that this farm will generate up to 465 carbon certificates in 4 years (based on a conservative estimation). Consequently, investors will additionally receive a portion of sales proceeds from every carbon certificate generated throughout the span of 4 years as the following terms;

It is expected that the first carbon certificates will be generated and sold in the first quarter of 2024. The exact return will depend on the amount of sequestered CO2 levels and the sale price of the carbon certificates.

If the farm withdraws from the Green Loan without a period of at least 4 years have elapsed, it undertakes to reimburse 12,5% annual interest.

CO2 emissions to be removed from the atmosphere because of this loan are equal to 2,1 million kilometres driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle.

*The internal rate of return (IRR) is a metric used in financial analysis to estimate the profitability of potential investments. Learn more about it

Keep in mind that the return forecast is an estimation and does not guarantee you the returns mentioned above