September 21, 2026 · New York City
The Future of Carbon Finance: Scaling Finance for Nature-Based Climate Solutions
New York Climate Week
About Us
About Us
We combine three decades of conservation-finance leadership with the legal, financial, and technical expertise needed to move institutional capital into nature-based solutions.
Why Us
Integrity Global Partners brings together…
Market Positioning
We bridge the gap between ambitious climate commitments and investable projects. For investors, we source, assess, and structure high-quality opportunities. For developers and governments, we strengthen projects and programs so they can access early-stage and institutional capital.
Experience
Our experience spans project origination, design, due diligence, financial structuring, risk management, and execution—supported by trusted relationships across global carbon and conservation markets.
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Our Mission & Vision
Climate ambition has outgrown the market's ability to deliver it. Integrity Global Partners exists to close that gap.
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Our Mission
To move institutional capital into high-integrity Nature-based Solutions at the scale the climate requires — building the structures, standards, and relationships that make early-stage nature-based assets investable, so private capital can flow into forests, communities, and climate outcomes with confidence.
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Our Vision
A market where nature-based assets are held to the same standards as any other institutional asset class — where quality is verifiable, communities benefit by design, and the capital deployed today funds the protection and restoration of the world's most important landscapes for decades to come.
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Our Team
Meet our Founder. Three decades of leadership in conservation finance.
IGP brings the market around the table — working with practitioners across finance, law, insurance, and project development on every mandate.
Founder & CEO
Cheri Sugal
Cheri founded IGP with the vision of scaling the early financing available for the development of Nature-based Solutions. The firm draws on her 30 years of experience financing conservation and generating carbon assets, with on-the-ground experience in 70+ countries.
IGP's practice spans emerging markets — working with governments, NGOs, communities, and the private sector — and the financial structuring that brings early private financing into emission reduction projects.
IGP's founder brings three decades of experience across the globe
Cheri has spent three decades designing, financing, and scaling nature-based conservation programs across more than 70 countries — most of them in the global south. Early in her career, she created the pioneering USD 100 million fund at Conservation International's Global Conservation Fund. Under her leadership, it supported the creation and management of over 100 million hectares of new protected areas. She then served as Director for Latin America and Africa at Terra Global Capital, where she designed Nature-based Solutions projects across both continents. Built through participatory design with indigenous and local stakeholders, those projects have been successfully validated and are delivering carbon credits today.
Cheri has led capital deployment work with national governments and the World Bank, including benefit sharing design for National & Jurisdictional REDD+ programs in Colombia, Mexico, Guyana, Cambodia, and Zambia. She went on to lead project structuring and financing as Head of Structured Finance at South Pole, deploying tens of millions of dollars of early-stage capital into high-integrity Nature-based Solutions for investors and corporates. She also founded Imperative Global Group and served as its Chief Investment Officer.
Now, as CEO and Founder of Integrity Global Partners, Cheri brings this full-arc experience — from on-the-ground project design to institutional capital deployment — to unlocking finance for nature at scale.
Experience across
- Conservation International — creator of the pioneering USD 100 million fund
- Terra Global Capital — Director, Latin America & Africa
- South Pole — Head of Structured Finance
- Imperative Global Group — Founder & Chief Investment Officer
- The World Bank and national governments — capital deployment and benefit-sharing design
Three decades. More than 70 countries. Institutional capital deployed into high-integrity Nature-based Solutions.
Collaborators and Advisors
A firm built with the market itself
Across the market, IGP collaborates with experts assembled for each mandate. We bring expertise from structured finance, insurance, law, infrastructure, academia, and benefit sharing.
Meet some of the expert collaborators
IGP works alongside practitioners across the carbon market — finance, law, science, and market infrastructure — on the book, on events, and on mandates.
Sam LampertInvestor in Nature-based SolutionsNature-based solutions investment and forest conservation finance.James Kench, CFACEO & Co-Founder, RootRiskRisk intelligence for regenerative agriculture and nature-based solutions.Benoît ClémentFellow, Financial Infrastructure for Carbon Markets, VCM+ CollaborativeCarbon market financial infrastructure and registry innovation.Connor J. Nolan, PhDPhysical Science Research Scientist, Stanford UniversityClimate science, forest ecology, and carbon removal accounting.Peter MayerPartner, Stairs Dillenbeck Finley Mayer PLLCClimate law and durable carbon removal transactions.Simon Puleston JonesCEO & Co-Founder, SyndicatedCarbonRegulated market infrastructure for standardized carbon contracts.
Inside the book Some of our clients and partners.
Convenings
Sessions at NY & London Climate Weeks
IGP convenes the practitioners structuring, de-risking, and closing carbon finance transactions.
June 2026 · London
The Future of Carbon Finance — Practitioner Working Session
London Climate Action Week 2026
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