Cool Climate Club

What Cool Climate Club does

Cool Climate Club is a Canadian climate action retail platform that enables brands to integrate reforestation commitments at the point of sale. Its core product surface consists of a Shopify app that lets consumers opt into supporting Canadian Smart Forests with each purchase, a real-time impact dashboard for transparent reporting, and enterprise-level packages that include Smart Forest investment, hosted campaigns, and co-branded merchandise. The platform is powered by Canada's Forest Trust Corporation (CFTC), which provides the proprietary Smart Forest™ methodology — a six-phase planting and preservation approach executed with Indigenous community partners across Canada — and the underlying digital monitoring technology.

The technology stack is a proprietary turnkey platform built around the Smart Forest™ trademark and a digital dashboard; it pairs nature-based project execution (Brinkman Reforestation, Forests Canada, Restor monitoring) with a no-code Shopify integration that installs in minutes. Forest monitoring is described in terms of digital tools rather than advanced AI/ML, and the product framing leans on transparent, real-time impact reporting rather than predictive modeling.

The business model combines a self-serve Shopify app distributed via the Shopify App Store with tailored, subscription-style enterprise partnerships priced per retailer rather than on published tiers. The platform primarily serves Canadian forward-thinking retailers spanning enterprise brands (Joe Fresh, Arcadia Earth, Luminato) and SMBs (Milan Kids, Blossom Shop, Natural Food Pantry), with end consumers as the activated purchasing party via checkout opt-ins. Operations are governed by Ontario law as a subsidiary of CFTC, with leadership headed by CEO Gary Zed and a 16-member advisory board spanning retail, sustainability, and policy.

Name

Cool Climate Club

Legal name

Cool Climate Club

Website

https://coolclimateclub.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cool Climate Club is a Canadian retail climate action platform, powered by Canada's Forest Trust Corporation, that enables brands to activate reforestation at checkout via a Shopify app and customized enterprise partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate Action Platform / Nature-Based Sustainability Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (1153), Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (1132)

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Forestry & Ecosystem Carbon Removal (Afforestation/Reforestation, Improved Forest Management) (EUABAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Carbon Neutrality/Claims Strategy & Communications (claims substantiation, greenwashing risk) (EUABAKAK), Timberland Carbon & Natural Capital Project Development (Offsets/REDD+) (AFAMAKAH), Carbon Accounting, Verification & Registry Services (MRV, Audits, Certification) (IMAMAJAE)

Keywords

• Climate action platform
• Retail sustainability solutions
• Reforestation ecosystem services
• Shopify climate app
• Carbon offset partnerships

Headquarters

HQ city

Bengaluru

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Retail Partnership Subscriptions: Customized solutions for forward-thinking retail brands including activation at checkout, campaign hosting, and Smart Forest investment. Pricing is tailored to retailer needs and sustainability goals.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cool Climate Club partners with retail brands to enable nature-based climate action through tree planting and forest stewardship, delivered via a free Shopify checkout app and a proprietary digital monitoring platform. Powered by Canada's Forest Trust Corporation, it plants and preserves Smart Forests™ across Canada through a six-phase approach with Indigenous community partnerships and provides a real-time dashboard for tracking and sharing climate impact.

Product overview

Cool Climate Club is a nature-based climate action platform powered by Canada's Forest Trust Corporation. The core offering consists of Smart Forests™ — reforestation ecosystems across Canada developed through a six-phase approach with Indigenous community partnerships — paired with a proprietary turnkey digital platform. The product portfolio includes a Shopify app for retail checkout integration, a real-time impact dashboard for monitoring forest growth, and branded customization options for co-branding opportunities. Retailers can activate Cool Climate Club at checkout, host climate campaigns, and invest in Smart Forests to showcase corporate climate commitments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 72% of Canadians 18-29 (and 57% overall) are willing to contribute to climate action at checkout
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Canada's Forest Trust Corporation (CFTC)OthersParent company powering Cool Climate Club. Provides Smart Forest technology and turnkey digital platform. Forest Trust Corporation handles forest planting, preservation, and monitoring across Canada. Governed by Ontario law.
• Joe FreshcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerForward-thinking retail fashion brand partnering with Cool Climate Club for climate action at checkout. Part of the customer and partner ecosystem.
• Arcadia EarthcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-sponsored launch contest with Cool Climate Club and @CoolClimateClub. Climate action retail partner with mesh tote rewards.
• Brinkman ReforestationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReforestation partner supporting Smart Forest ecosystem planting and preservation activities.
• Forests CanadaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational forest conservation organization partner for Canadian reforestation initiatives.
• ShopifycoreTechnology or IntegrationShopify App Store integration enables retailers to add tree-planting functionality at checkout. App listed on Shopify app marketplace for easy discovery and installation.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Cloverly: Cloverly provides a carbon offset API and platform that businesses embed in checkout and product flows; functionally similar to Cool Climate Club's digital dashboard plus retail integration stack.
• Patch: Patch offers carbon credits and offset APIs purpose-built for e-commerce checkout flows, directly comparable to Cool Climate Club's retailer checkout activation layer and impact dashboard.
• EcoCart: EcoCart provides a Shopify-integrated checkout offering that lets shoppers offset carbon with each purchase, the same core use case Cool Climate Club enables via its Shopify app for SMB retailers.
• Pachama: Pachama uses satellite and AI monitoring to verify nature-based carbon projects, paralleling CCC's Smart Forest technology approach and dashboard-driven impact reporting for buyers.
• tentree: tentree plants trees tied to product purchases and serves as a benchmark retail brand built on the same tree-per-purchase model that Cool Climate Club packages as a platform for other retailers.

Broad incumbents

• South Pole: South Pole is a large global carbon project developer and climate solutions provider with established retailer and corporate clients, a much larger incumbent operating in the same nature-based carbon space as CCC.
• One Tree Planted: One Tree Planted is a large nonprofit reforestation organization with corporate and retail partnerships, comparable to CCC's mission of planting trees via retail brand partnerships but at significantly greater scale.
• Chooose: Chooose is a broader climate engagement platform with APIs for airlines, fintech, and retail — overlapping with CCC on retailer climate-action offerings but spanning more industries.

Emerging players

• Wren: Wren offers subscription-based carbon offsetting for individuals, sharing CCC's consumer-facing climate-action angle and targeting the same climate-anxious Gen Z demographic.

Others

• Watershed: Watershed is a carbon accounting and reduction platform for enterprises; adjacent infrastructure that retailers use to substantiate climate claims, complementing CCC's checkout-side offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/CoolClimateClub
• Facebookfacebook.com/61569134712865
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coolclimateclub

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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