ClimateCare

Overview

ClimateCare is a profit-for-purpose environmental and social impact company known for its role as an early provider of voluntary carbon offset services. It uses carbon and other results-based finance to support "Climate+Care" projects that both cut emissions and deliver social development benefits.

Key Facts

• Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Oxford, UK, with operations in the UK, Kenya, and India.
• Certified B Corporation and an early advocate of voluntary action on climate change.
• Provides carbon offsets, renewable energy certificates (RECs), and broader impact outcomes to businesses and governments.

Role in Climate Finance

• One of the early pioneers in the voluntary carbon market, particularly in project-based offsets that link climate mitigation with health, livelihoods, and biodiversity.
• Has developed and financed projects in areas such as efficient cookstoves, clean energy access, and forestry, often in Africa and Asia.
• Example of a "profit-for-purpose" model where carbon revenues are tied explicitly to development co-benefits.

Relationship to Other Entities

• Merged with Natural Capital Partners to form Climate Impact Partners, now a major voluntary carbon market intermediary.
• Relevant standards and initiatives include Gold Standard and other high-integrity offset standards.

Use in this Brain

• Anchor node for early-generation voluntary offset providers and for case studies on project-based climate finance with strong social co-benefits.