Climate Impact Partners Appoints Dominique Airey as Client Solutions Director

Climate Impact Partners, a global leader in high-quality carbon market solutions, has appointed Dominique Airey as Client Solutions Director to lead its UK, Europe and Rest of World client solutions team, bringing commercial leadership experience from CUR8, a leading carbon removal platform backed by Google Ventures and Airbus Ventures, where she served as Chief Commercial Officer. In the new role, Airey will work with leading global corporates to translate climate ambition into action through the carbon market, leading a regional team connecting clients with carbon solutions including a growing sustainable aviation fuel and carbon dioxide removal technology portfolio. The appointment follows the recent hire of Chief Growth Officer Ryan King from UNDO Carbon and reflects Climate Impact Partners' continued focus on leading the carbon market through its next phase of maturity and impact.

 

Airey's Background and Carbon Market Expertise

 

At CUR8, Airey built and led the company's commercial function from the ground up, securing landmark offtake agreements and partnerships with clients across financial services, professional services, aviation, FMCG and high-profile sports and entertainment carbon-removed events. Her background combines carbon market commercialisation experience with earlier work building commercial strategies for startups across climate technology, fintech and healthtech, alongside leading the go-to-market strategy for a £50 million Procter and Gamble UK business unit. She has been recognised among Startup Basecamp's 100 Women Driving Climate Tech and Management Today's 35 Women Under 35, and brings governance experience from her role as Chair of the climate education non-profit Climate Ed.

Ryan King, Chief Growth Officer at Climate Impact Partners, said Airey has been at the forefront of scaling the carbon market and knows what it takes to make it deliver, bringing the clarity and commercial focus needed to help clients navigate complexity and implement solutions that create measurable, lasting impact. Airey said Climate Impact Partners has built a reputation for integrity and impact in the carbon markets underpinned by the strength of its client service, breadth of portfolio offering and deep technical expertise, and that her focus will be on helping organisations navigate complexity and unlock high-quality solutions that support credible, future-proof climate strategies. The timing of the appointment reflects a period of rapid evolution in the voluntary carbon market as clients increasingly seek trusted partners with deep technical expertise to guide procurement decisions across the expanding landscape of carbon removal and avoidance instruments.

 

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The Carbon Market Context and Portfolio Evolution

 

Climate Impact Partners' portfolio expansion into sustainable aviation fuel certificates and carbon dioxide removal technologies alongside conventional nature-based carbon credits reflects the broader evolution of the voluntary carbon market toward higher-integrity, more permanent removal instruments that meet the increasingly stringent procurement standards of institutional corporate buyers. The growing CDR portfolio addresses demand from companies whose net-zero strategies require permanent carbon removal rather than nature-based avoidance credits for addressing residual emissions, while the SAF portfolio serves the aviation sector's specific decarbonisation needs through a supply chain-integrated approach. Airey's experience at CUR8 in securing CDR offtake agreements from clients across multiple sectors positions her to lead client engagement across this expanded portfolio with credibility built from direct commercial experience in the most technically demanding segment of the carbon market.

The appointment comes at a moment when corporate voluntary carbon credit buyers are applying increasing rigour to their procurement decisions in response to media scrutiny, investor pressure and the development of higher-integrity market standards including the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles and the VCMI Claims Code of Practice. Climate Impact Partners' emphasis on high-quality solutions and portfolio integrity positions the firm to benefit from this quality migration, but realising that benefit requires client-facing leadership with both the technical understanding to assess credit quality and the commercial skills to help corporate buyers navigate a market that has become substantially more complex than when most voluntary carbon programmes were established.

 

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Outlook for Climate Impact Partners' Market Position

 

The combination of a new Chief Growth Officer hired from UNDO Carbon and now a Client Solutions Director from CUR8 signals a deliberate strategy of building commercial leadership from within the carbon removal ecosystem rather than from conventional carbon trading or advisory backgrounds. This talent strategy reflects Climate Impact Partners' positioning as a partner for the most sophisticated phase of corporate carbon market engagement, where clients require guidance on CDR procurement, SAF certificates and the integration of multiple carbon solution types into coherent net-zero strategies rather than simple credit purchasing. Whether this commercial leadership investment translates into measurable growth in client engagements and carbon credit volume will be the practical test of the hiring strategy over the next several years.

Sustained commercial growth under Airey's leadership would reinforce Climate Impact Partners' position as a leading intermediary in the maturing voluntary carbon market and demonstrate that the combination of portfolio quality, technical expertise and experienced client-facing leadership can capture a growing share of the institutional corporate demand for high-integrity carbon solutions. The convergence of mandatory climate disclosure under CSRD, growing investor scrutiny of net-zero claim credibility and the evolution of carbon market standards toward higher integrity requirements creates conditions in which trusted, expert carbon market partners with strong portfolio credentials are likely to attract increasing institutional client interest.

 

Source: Climate Impact Partners