About Canopy and ACBI

Australian Carbon Biosequestration Initiative Ltd (ACBI)
(ABN 44110635848)

Canopy is the trading name of Australian Carbon Biosequestration Initiative Ltd (ACBI), which originated in 2001 as a group of like-minded people under the name of the Big Green Umbrella Project. Canopy reflects our original name and describes our goal to provide a canopy for rural Australia.

We are governed by a Board of Directors. Our trustees administer the Big Green Umbrella public fund to which tax-deductible donations are made.

We support the permanent planting of local provenance indigenous trees funded through carbon biosequestration. We seek to inform and also to provide benefits for biodiversity, salinity control and farming.

We are not profit driven. Our not-for-profit status is suitable for business and corporate community service objectives.

Board of ACBI Directors and Big Green Umbrella Fund Trustees

Dr Rob Ainslie

Mr Leonard Cohen

Mr Chris Johnston FAICD

Dr Andrew Lothian (Trustee)
Principal, Environmental Policy Solutions

Mr Michael McBride (Trustee)
Chair, SA Pastoral Board

Mr Nicholas Newland AM (Chair) (Trustee)
Former Executive Director, Environment Protection Agency

Adjunct Professor Monica Oliphant
Research Scientist, Environmentalist of the Year, Past President International Solar Energy Society

Professor Wasim Saman
Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering; Director, Institute for Sustainable Systems & Technology, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, University of South Australia