About Greennect
Greennect is a Dutch sustainability consultancy built specifically for small businesses and co-working spaces that receive ESG questions from clients, banks, or landlords and need to respond appropriately without a full-time sustainability hire.
We work through fixed-price service packs, no open-ended retainers, no vague scopes. Each engagement has a clear starting point, a defined output, and a timeline. When we finish, you own the evidence folder and the system your team uses going forward.
Our Story
Greennect started from a straightforward observation. Most ESG support available to small businesses was built for companies with compliance departments, legal teams, and dedicated sustainability staff. The frameworks were complex, the consultants were expensive, and the outputs were reports that small teams could not maintain or reuse.
At the same time, the pressure on Dutch SMEs was growing. Clients were adding sustainability requirements to supplier contracts. Banks were asking for environmental data before approving financing. Government tenders were scoring MVO criteria. Small teams were getting questions they had no system to answer.
Greennect was created to close that gap. We help Dutch SMEs, co-working operators, and suppliers respond to sustainability questions already being raised by clients, banks, and landlords, with honest documentation, a reusable evidence folder, and a process that their teams can maintain without specialist knowledge.
We do not sell certifications you do not need or reports nobody asked for. We start with the specific request in front of you, structure what your business already has, and leave you with a system that handles the next request faster.
Every business is different. We start there.
What a 12-person supplier in Rotterdam needs isn’t what a co-working space in Amsterdam needs, or what a family business bidding on its first tender needs. So we don’t hand you 80 pages of generic sustainability writing and call it tailored. Most of it wouldn’t apply to you anyway.
We sit down with you, review the actual request in front of you and the sector you work in, and find the shortest, most honest route to answering it. The pack gives you a fixed price and a defined output. What goes inside is built around your situation, not a template you are asked to fit into.
Built for the gap the law created
The EU raised the mandatory sustainability reporting threshold so high that most Dutch SMEs fell entirely out of legal scope.
The compliance obligation disappeared. But clients kept sending questionnaires. Banks kept asking for green financing data. Tenders kept scoring MVO criteria.
Greennect was built specifically for this gap, where the regulatory obligation ended but the commercial pressure did not. We are not a compliance tool. We are a response system for the questions already sitting in your inbox.
The new EU standard for SMEs, and we help you use it
Honest sustainability support. No overclaiming
The EU introduced the Voluntary Sustainability Standard for SMEs (VSME) as a recognised, structured way for smaller businesses to document and share sustainability performance without the complexity of the full CSRD framework.
We are one of the first Dutch consultancies helping SMEs adopt it. For Annual Pack clients, the VSME setup is built into the first quarter of the engagement.
The result is a disclosure document that banks, procurement teams, and corporate clients increasingly reference, ready to share at any time of year.
Most ESG help available to small businesses comes in one of two forms: expensive consultants built for large companies, or cheap templates that produce reports nobody reads.
Both pose the same risk, and sustainability claims that cannot be substantiated. That is greenwashing, even when it is accidental.
We exist because small teams deserve support that is proportionate to their size, honest about what they actually do, and specific enough to hold up under close scrutiny from a client, bank, or procurement team. We do not help you say more than you can prove.
POLICY ALIGNMENT & IMPACT
How our work connects to broader goals
The work we do with individual businesses adds up. When a small team reduces energy use, improves waste handling, and documents its environmental performance honestly.
Dutch Climate Act Alignment
The Netherlands has committed to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors, including small and medium-sized businesses.
By helping Dutch SMEs measure, reduce, and document their environmental impact in practical ways, our work supports that direction without adding unnecessary burden to teams with limited capacity.
Where your business sits in the rules
You are feeling this pressure because of a policy chain running above you. The EU’s Green Deal set the 2050 net-zero target, Fit for 55 put interim deadlines on it, and the Netherlands’ Climate Act commits the country to the same path. Your clients, your bank, and tender committees are each measured against some part of that, so the question rolls downhill to you.
Our job is to keep you fluent in the part that applies to a business your size, and honest about the part that doesn’t. We use VSME, the EU’s voluntary standard for SMEs, so what you report aligns with what your stakeholders already recognise. And we will tell you plainly which frameworks apply to you and which don’t, instead of dressing you in all of them. Knowing where you genuinely stand is the only alignment that holds up under scrutiny.