No, Regreener is not a charity or non-profit but a sustainable commercial company. Being a non-profit organisation comes with certain (financial) limitations. We believe that being a (financially) self-sustaining company, not only relying on donations and subsidies, enables us to focus on long-term impact on a large scale.

Although Regreener is a sustainable commercial company, we are otherwise operating like a charity, by picking the best elements that serve our cause: publicly publishing financial information and impact data. Also, our overhead margin of 25% is up there with the best charities. As it is our mission to have as big as an impact as possible, having a self-sustaining business model is the most efficient way of running our business. We want to be as streamlined and efficient as possible, being able to scale and attract top talent to reach our goals: regreen the world and fight climate change.

Our mission is to accelerate the broad impact of sustainable projects on our planet. To achieve this mission 75% of your contribution is used to funding climate change mitigating projects.

The other 25% covers all overhead costs to run Regreener, amongst other spreading the word of our mission, team member compensation, IT & software, office rent and office costs.

Transparency is one of our Founding Principles. That's why we leave a full paper trail of what and how we run Regreener and our communities' impact on our Financials page.

This is what happens to your money after you subscribe to our platform:

1. After receiving your contribution, we pay 21% VAT (value-added tax) to the government. 

2. After that, 75% is used to fund climate change mitigation projects and relevant transaction costs. In your profile, you can see how much impact you have had so far by supporting these climate change solutions. We also publish proof of our tree planting, our carbon certificates and the donations that were made on behalf of the entire Regreener community on our Financials page.

3. Lastly, the other 25% of our revenue is used to to run Regreener.

The two factors responsible for this difference in prices are VAT (value-added tax) and 'Employee Commuting' and 'Business Travel' Scope 3 emissions from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

Prices for personal plans are including 21% VAT. The VAT is paid to the tax authorities in whole. The prices voor business are exluding VAT, because businesses can reclaim the VAT they pay at the relevant tax authority. Therefore, VAT is irrelevant for businesses.

As for employee travel Scope 3 emissions, we have added an additional 10% to employee footprints to make sure that these are covered through a Planet Positive Workforce subscription.

All of our projects have been carefully selected, together with our Climate Science Advisors, based on four criteria:

- A track record in removing or reducing CO2 emissions;

- A positive impact on biodiversity;

- Social impact: providing jobs to local communities;

- Data-transparency: our projects have real, measurable and verifiable impact.

Next to that all of our projects and partners have their impact and financials audited by third party organizations, so that you can be sure that your contribution does what we promise: mitigate climate change

We support a vast number of Sustainable Development Goals through the projects we support, with a special focus on the following goals:

1) No poverty

7) Clean and affordable energy

8) Decent work and economic growth

10) Reduced inequalities

13) Climate action

15) Life on land

To find out which specific SDG's have been supported through each of our projects you can visit the dedicated project pages.