A Year of Equilibrium: Staying Steady While Moving Ahead

2025 was the year Equilibrium crossed a clear threshold.

We moved from proving concepts to executing systems – expedited at scale and with consequences that extend well beyond the organization.

We began the year as a small core team of 6 people. We end it with 51 specialists across carbon science, technology, operations, and climate finance. Our team shares one mandate: making high-integrity CDR a credible, bankable asset class in the Global South.

While much of the market continues to evolve, our focus has remained to consistently build proof where it matters the most: in soil, in ecosystems, and in livelihoods.

We invite you to explore this year’s milestones and the progress made possible through your continued support and trust!

India’s agricultural lands face a severe soil organic carbon deficit. Addressing that gap requires reliable operations, durable feedstock access, and field-validated outcomes. In 2025, our biochar work moved decisively into that role, positioning us to deliver significant volumes from our facilities in 2026. Key highlights included:

Industrial Scale

We commissioned multiple biochar facilities this year. Our first facility is progressing through validation under an isometric pathway, while another has cleared pre-eligibility assessment under Puro, converting installed capacity into issuance-ready infrastructure.

Field Validated Outcomes

We have begun testing our biochar across various agro-ecological regions and crop types, and are seeing perceivable increases in crop yield, directly translating into income resilience for multiple smallholder farmers operating in once agriculturally exhausted regions. 

Our nature-based vertical is built on a simple conviction: carbon finance is the engine that allows ecological restoration to endure across decades.

This year, that conviction moved into active, science-led execution—laying the foundation for work that will scale over decades across more than 30,000 hectares of grasslands, dry deciduous forests, and coastal ecosystems.

Driving Integrated Climate and Community Impact

Our mangrove restoration project, and agroforestry initiatives restore degraded landscapes into resilient carbon sinks, reversing desertification, stabilizing coastlines, and reviving critical ecosystem services. Our models are built around native species growth, guided by indigenous knowledge to strengthen biodiversity and climate resilience.

Led by local collectives—especially women’s groups—the model creates sustainable livelihoods through shared carbon revenues and skills training, aligning environmental restoration with income generation opportunities.

All our projects that are moving under Verra validation (VCS ID - 5589, 5697, 5805) cumulatively anchor a 20-million-tonne agroforestry & mangrove pipeline built to withstand highest standards of delivery over the next few decades.

We also built the essential infrastructure to remove friction where climate initiatives usually stall. At the same time, we focused on partnering with leading scientific institutions to establish methodological rigor in our research.

Digital MRV, Built from the Soil Up

We built our digital MRV system from ground up, optimizing it to capture impact at source across soil health, biomass, and carbon outcomes. Beyond transparency, it enables communities to turn each credit into a traceable and accountable asset.

We also standardized our entire portfolio on BlueLayer, introducing the reporting depth required for institutional capital and large-scale execution for our Biochar and Nature portfolio.

Unlocking Capital Where Risk Once Stopped It

We closed a $3 million seed round led by Avaana Capital, Kalaari Capital, and Peak XV Partners. Alongside this, we executed a first-of-its-kind ~$2 million blended finance engine to absorb early-stage risk for our NBS projects. These capital raises built momentum and unlocked projects that previously couldn’t move forward.

Climate Science Built for the Long Term Credibility

We continued partnering with leading scientific institutions while building a dedicated in-house climate science and analytics team. We entered into a formal MoU with the Institute of Wood Science and Technology to support identification of biomass feedstock for large-scale biochar production.

Looking Ahead: 2026, The Year of Pure Delivery

2025 clarified the discipline required to grow without drifting from our centre. Scale exerted its pull. Integrity demanded patience. Bridging that distance became daily work.

We are at the position to move into high scale execution in 2026.

This is where Equilibrium now stands—not testing whether the model can work, but carrying the responsibility of making sure it does: restoring ecosystems and helping communities and smallholder farmers build the resilience to sustain and adapt in the coming decades.

As the year comes to a close, we remain committed to advancing climate action through science, community, and meaningful collaboration. If our direction resonates with you, we welcome the opportunity to connect. Please write to us at: hello@equilibriumearth.com to build what's next, together. Wishing you a merry holiday season!