Climate Impact Partners

Overview

Climate Impact Partners is a voluntary carbon market specialist that develops and delivers high-quality carbon market solutions for companies and organizations seeking to meet ambitious climate goals (carbon neutrality, net zero, renewable energy targets). It focuses on high-integrity carbon finance projects that reduce and remove emissions while improving health, livelihoods, and biodiversity.

Origin & Structure

• Formed through the merger of ClimateCare and Natural Capital Partners (merger announced in 2021, rebrand in March 2022).
• Has supported more than 600 carbon reduction and removal projects across 50+ countries.
• Long-standing actor in the voluntary carbon market with roots going back to the late 1990s.

Business Model & Role in Climate Finance

• Designs and manages portfolios of carbon credits and energy attribute certificates (EACs) for corporate clients.
• Provides end-to-end services: strategy, sourcing, due diligence, portfolio management, and reporting.
• Positions itself as a high-integrity provider (Certified B Corp, repeat “Best Offset Retailer” and “Best Project Developer” awards) to help corporates credibly use carbon markets while pursuing deep emissions reductions.

Relevance to this Brain

• Key example of a carbon market intermediary that:
  • Channels private capital from corporates into global climate projects
  • Sits between project developers (cookstoves, forestry, clean energy, nature-based solutions, etc.) and buyers of credits
  • Illustrates the consolidation trend in the voluntary carbon market (roll‑up of ClimateCare + Natural Capital Partners under private equity backing).