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Where Vision Meets Viability: India’s FOAK Blueprint for Climate Finance at Scale

Where Vision Meets Viability: India’s FOAK Blueprint for Climate Finance at Scale

Executive Summary In the climate-stressed heartland of Andhra Pradesh, Equilibrium designed and delivered a First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) blended finance model, accelerating a large-scale transition to regenerative agriculture for smallholder farmers. Faced with intensifying rainfall unpredictability and the limits of traditional funding, the project pioneered a unique financial structure, layering catalytic philanthropic

How Technology is Transforming Carbon Removal Markets

How Technology is Transforming Carbon Removal Markets

Carbon removal is entering a new chapter — one that demands both scale and trust. As the global push for high-integrity carbon credits accelerates, traditional verification methods have shown their limits: they're slow, opaque, and costly. But the answer isn’t generic tech hype. It’s about purpose-built, fit-for-context

Shift The Scales: Why Equilibrium Takes Its Internship Program Seriously

Shift The Scales: Why Equilibrium Takes Its Internship Program Seriously

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s this: the right interns can help create a meaningful impact on the trajectory of a company. I first came across this thought at a conference in 2015, where Kunal Bahl, the founder of Snapdeal and Titan Capital

Introducing Equilibrium: Where Climate Action Meets Financial Innovation

Introducing Equilibrium: Where Climate Action Meets Financial Innovation

Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge — and an extraordinary opportunity. At Equilibrium, we stand at the forefront of this transformation, bridging the gap between nature-based carbon removal and sophisticated financial ecosystems. More than just a company, we are pioneering a movement that fuses integrity, innovation, and measurable global impact. Why

What will it take for smallholder farmers to transition to low-emissions agriculture?

What will it take for smallholder farmers to transition to low-emissions agriculture?

Santosh owns a small two hectare plot of land, roughly half the size of the London Eye, in Northern India. He is a second-generation farmer and agriculture is his only source of income. Things aren’t the same as they were when he started working in his fields two decades

Equilibrium's Digital Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (dMRV) Product: What We Built and Why?

Equilibrium's Digital Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (dMRV) Product: What We Built and Why?

Credibility and scientific rigor required for carbon removal and reduction projects becomes more attainable when data - from baseline to project completion - is consolidated on a single platform and displayed transparently. The Voluntary Carbon Market has both upstream and downstream actors, each having its specific role, responsibilities, and requirements

A Fork in the Road: The Next Chapter for Climes & Equilibrium

A Fork in the Road: The Next Chapter for Climes & Equilibrium

In June 2021, we founded Climes with a clear vision: to accelerate the flow of finance into Climate Action. Over the past three years, we've had the privilege of engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders across the climate ecosystem, including customers, brands, enterprises, climate financiers, and project

The Quest for Quality: Designing a high-quality carbon project in India

The Quest for Quality: Designing a high-quality carbon project in India

It’s been an eventful few quarters for the Carbon Market industry. The year began with a watershed article from the Guardian calling out REDD+ credits for being worthless, “phantom credits”. This set off somewhat of a chain reaction, with the ICVCM later releasing revised guidelines for the assessment of

The Case for Nature: A Fireside Chat with Siddarth Shrikanth

The Case for Nature: A Fireside Chat with Siddarth Shrikanth

I was first introduced to Siddarth Shrikanth in 2022. Back then, he was still in the process of writing his book and I remember feeling incredibly excited to learn that he was concerned with and addressing the question of how to find economic value in the preservation of nature. We

Of faucets, nature-based solutions, and the Voluntary Carbon Markets

Of faucets, nature-based solutions, and the Voluntary Carbon Markets

Let’s start with some trivia. Here is the story of the first carbon credit. “In 1988, Applied Energy Services (now AES) planned to build small coal-fired power plants around the United States, selling the electricity to local utilities. But the CEO of AES, Roger Sant, was concerned about climate