The Voluntary Carbon Market is demanding carbon credits that do more than just offset greenhouse gases.
To meet this need, businesses are focusing on initiatives that generate holistic and credible carbon credits delivering co-benefits such as ecosystem services, biodiversity enhancement or socio-economic outcomes.
There is, however, no single standard that can validate these outcomes transparently, credibly and backed by data.
We are building a hybrid model that integrates carbon projects with a tech platform to deliver high impact carbon credits to businesses at speed and scale.
It also enables carbon finance to reach marginal communities in developing economies - restoring ecosystems and creating livelihoods.
Data-backed
A platform that combines data from multiple sources to create a holistic picture of impact.
Transparent
All data is blockchain protected and publicly available for audit by anyone
Quantified
Data is useful only when it can be translated into meaningful, actionable insights and real world outcomes.
Apart from carbon, we measure 4 co-benefits that matter for the survival of the communities most at risk from climate change.
Water
By 2025, 50% of the world’s population is projected to live in water-stressed areas as a result of climate change, with low-income families bearing the greatest burden of this crisis.
- Water.org
Soil
A full 90 per cent of the Earth’s precious topsoil is likely to be at risk by 2050
- UN Food & Agriculture Organization
Biodiversity
Wildlife populations have declined by an average 69% in the past 50 years
-WWF
Livelihoods
In spite of over 7% national GDP growth, 800 million Indians receive subsidised food grain from government
Climate change is not the only crisis we face.
Human activity has breached 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries.
A perfect storm of climate change and ecological collapse threatens survival of marginal communities, particularly in the Global South. This is as much a financial challenge as it is a climate or environmental one.
Different studies have come up with different numbers but they all agree that investment needed to decarbonise economies, adapt to changing climate and develop green infrastructure runs into over a trillion US$ per year. Currently, the available finance is just a fraction of that.
Ecosys.Earth is on a mission to drive carbon market finance not just to mitigate climate change but to repair and restore ecosystem services, specially for those facing the brunt of the impending catastrophe. Our strategy has three distinct features:
1. The Model: Biochar production by community actors using small-scale plants is a type of engineered carbon removal that can channel carbon finance to those at the receiving end of climate change. Our project design includes farm soil amendment using the biochar produced, water conservation and biodiversity enhancement to create a host of holistic benefits for ecosystems and multiple income streams for smallholder farmers.
2. The Tech: Currently under development, our technology platform will employ satellite, drone, smartphone and IOT based dMRV (Digital Measurement, Reporting and Verification) systems for near-live capture of data, analysis using AI / ML and published on our dashboard using blockchain for integrity. This is critical for trust, transparency and cost effectiveness.
3. The Impact: This climate action business model is designed to maximise benefits to all stakeholders, while being financially sustainable. Marginal communities benefit from livelihood creation; businesses benefit from high-quality, transparent and verifiable carbon offsets and the planet benefits from an exponentially scalable solution that not just mitigates climate change but also restores ecosystems
Ecosys.Earth
'Grassroots', Nrityagram Road,
Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru - 560088
India
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Our founding story
The founders of Ecosys.Earth have been friends for more than a decade.
Naved is a serial career changer and entrepreneur with deep interest and a decade of experience in climate action and ecosystem restoration among rural communities.
Pri & Kanth are a couple married for 14 years. They are nature loving minimalists and founders of The Live Green Company who firmly believe that health & sustainability are two of the biggest issues of our time. Pri and Kanth represent Live Green's interests as co-founders at Ecosys.
It is the founders' passion for building ventures on the convergence of technology, sustainability and social responsibility that resulted in the genesis of Ecosys.Earth.
All three founders lead minimalist lives, in eco-friendly homes on sustainable farms.
Founder / CEO
At 25, Naved took a 3 year sabbatical to found an NGO, helping farmers grow and market peppermint in North India. That was his first engagement with the agro-social sector.
He spent the next 15 years in Dubai, founding a publishing and a PR company with multiple offices and Fortune 500 clients, which he exited in 2012.
He returned to India to restore a 6 acre degraded farm land into a biodiverse forest where he lives.
He also founded Grassroots Research Foundation (2012 - non-profit) and Carbon Negative (2021- for profit) offering eco-restoration services and consulting for CSR initiatives.
Cofounder
Pri is a Master in Retail Management with over 18 yrs of experience working with Calvin Klein, FCUK, Target Corp. among others.
As the founder, she has so far led TLGC to US$ 11Mn funding and operations in the US, Chile and Singapore, and won numerous accolades such as One of the Top 100 Women Leaders of Chile (by El Mercurio), Women Building the Future by Vegan Woman Summit USA, and Top 20 Global Food Heroes by V-label Europe.
Cofounder
Kanth did his BE (Hons) from BITS Pilani and is also thr exec alum of London Business School, IIM A and ISB.
As an entrepreneur, he has been building tech-enabled businesses since 2004 (when he was 21) with numerous awards and recognitions from the likes of BITSAA Global, FYSE Hong Kong and Businessweek Asia.
We deliver both for your business
Our biochar based CDR credits certified by Carbon Standards International are designed for high GHG impact, multiple ecosystem benefits and livelihoods for marginal communities.
We work with smallholder farmers who produce biochar to generate carbon credits that support their livelihoods, while improving farm soils, conserving water and enhancing biodiversity - all verified and quantified transparently by live project data available on our dashboard.
Building a fusion of Amul & Grameen Bank to address our civilisations gravest crisis
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