Natural Capital Partners

Overview

Natural Capital Partners (formerly The CarbonNeutral Company) was a leading provider of carbon neutrality solutions and voluntary carbon market services for corporates. It focused on helping companies measure, reduce, and offset emissions and on structuring broader environmental market products.

Key Facts

• Originated as The CarbonNeutral Company, rebranding to Natural Capital Partners around 2015.
• Founded in 1997, with clients across multiple countries.
• Known for CarbonNeutral® certification and repeat awards as a top offset retailer.

Role in Climate Finance

• Designed and delivered carbon offset programmes, renewable energy certificates (RECs), and other instruments (e.g., water benefit certificates, biodiversity-related products).
• Worked with project partners globally to use carbon finance and related instruments to fund climate and environmental projects.
• Well-known example of a corporate-facing carbon solutions provider, integrating carbon, energy, water and biodiversity products under a "natural capital" framing.

Relationship to Other Entities

• Merged with ClimateCare; together they now operate as Climate Impact Partners.
• Example of the consolidation trend in voluntary carbon markets and the evolution from single-focus offsetting to broader natural capital and environmental markets.

Use in this Brain

• Use this thought to trace the evolution of corporate carbon neutrality services, CarbonNeutral® certification, and the emergence of broader natural capital products in the voluntary carbon market.