LATITUDE CLIMATE

Flexible · Effective · Ready

Climate expertise for decisions that matter.

Latitude Climate advises businesses, investors and families on climate strategy, markets and planning.

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What we do

Three practices, one approach.

01

Carbon Strategy & Markets

Helping organizations measure, reduce and monetize carbon, with a focus on:

Nature-based solutionsBiocharRenewable fuelsDistributed power
  • GHG inventories, mitigation strategies, offsetting and insetting opportunities
  • Carbon project feasibility assessment, valuation, development and marketing
  • Environmental and carbon credit sales, sourcing and due diligence
02

Climate Investments & Transactions

Supporting investors and ventures across the low-carbon economy, with a focus on:

Low-carbon technologiesCarbon projectsPerforming & distressed assets
  • Early-stage advisory and executive coaching
  • Buy-side transaction support
  • Opportunity identification and technical and market validation
03

Family Resilience & Legacy

Helping families protect what they have built and shape what they leave behind, with a focus on:

Home energyInvestment diversificationPhilanthropy & engagement
  • Household energy security, savings and decarbonization
  • Portfolio risks and opportunities
  • Philanthropic and social engagement

How we work

What sets our work apart.

Flexible

We draw on the full spectrum of evolving climate solutions – technologies, markets and practices – without bias, to achieve your climate goals with the best possible fit and terms.

Effective

Our work is driven by a core commitment to championing solutions that meaningfully and verifiably reduce carbon emissions and climate impacts across latitudes.

Ready

Ready and emergent climate solutions are among the most exciting and important applications of the technologies transforming our future and can massively improve lives, returns and outcomes immediately.

About

Independent advice, grounded in experience.

Latitude Climate was co-founded in 2017 by Jeff Cole, who returned in 2026 to lead the firm. We draw on a network of experienced, vetted climate professionals with the collective expertise to take on a broad range of engagements, from focused technical analyses to complex, multi-party transactions.

The firm has advised investors, carbon project owners, developers, families and policy makers, including Resource Management Services, Tierra Resources, the California EPA secretary, The Nature Conservancy, Spatial Informatics Group and Sempervirens Fund.

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Track record

Project experience.

Carbon project development & diligence

  • Resource Management Services · Coastal Headwaters Longleaf ACClimate Action Reserve avoided conversion project (Florida)View details ↗
  • American Carbon Registry · Programmatic Development ApproachCo-authored ACR’s published protocol guidance for aggregating small landowners in grouped carbon projectsView details ↗
  • Tierra Resources · Mississippi River DeltaWetland and wastewater restoration carbon project validation and marketing (Louisiana)
  • The Forestland Group · Bishop IFMFirst commercial improved forest management compliance project, protecting over 200,000 acres (Michigan, Blue Source)View details ↗
  • National Audubon Society · Beidler IFMCalifornia compliance improved forest management project (South Carolina, Blue Source)View details ↗
  • Alligator River, Pocosin Lakes & Pungo River ACFirst early-action California compliance forestry project; the only compliance forest projects to verify and credit soil carbon (North Carolina, Blue Source)View details ↗
  • The Nature Conservancy · Bethlehem Authority IFMVerra improved forest management project (Pennsylvania, Blue Source)

New ventures & carbon finance

  • Greenline ClimateBoard member of Shell joint venture leading in US forest carbon project finance, development and marketingView details ↗
  • Kateri ClimateShell Ventures founding investment in a leading grassland soil carbon project developer, acquired by CultivoView details ↗
  • Forest Carbon WorksChief Commercial Officer, leading carbon sales and marketing strategy for an AXA-backed startup, acquired by Chestnut CarbonView details ↗
  • Full Circle Biochar (now Bio365)Technical feasibility, financial analysis and business planning (California Environmental Associates)View details ↗
  • The Nature Conservancy & Sempervirens FundSmall-landowner carbon sequestration and fuel management business plan

Climate strategy & research

  • ClimateWorks Foundation · “Design to Win”Global GHG mitigation strategy (covering power, industry, transport, buildings, forestry and agriculture) for Google.org and the Packard, Hewlett, Joyce and Energy foundations, the basis for ClimateWorks’ start-up funding and launch (California Environmental Associates)View details ↗
  • Packard FoundationBiofuel sustainability (California Environmental Associates)
  • California EPA secretaryAccelerating regenerative agriculture and soil health by leveraging private carbon finance
  • Confidential clientsFamily resilience strategies and legacy plans

Contact

Let’s talk climate.

Tell us a little about what you’re working on and we’ll be in touch.

info@latitudeclimate.com Greater New York · San Francisco · Boston
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