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September was a busy month for us, so here's a quick look back at everything that happened. 🎖️ A second rating. Swiftgreen, our agroforestry project with GreenCollar, has earned a pre-issuance 'A' rating from Sylvera, our second. It's built with tribal farming communities across five states, who keep full ownership of everything grown on their land, and tracked end to end by our GeoAI dMRV system. https://lnkd.in/eMcXxmJu 🗽 A week in NYC. Siddhanth joined GreenCollar, Climate Asset Management, and Forest Trends Association at New York Climate Week for a panel on smallholder agroforestry. Across most of the conversations that week, one thing kept coming up: trust in delivery is what actually decides scale in carbon markets, something we build for in every project we run. https://lnkd.in/eztW--R3 📰 The story behind the work. The Better India, in partnership with Kalaari Capital, spent time with us on what it actually takes to build carbon projects that hold up. It's also where our founder talks about the decision that led him here. https://lnkd.in/dMiJRUtf 🌾 Four days at Krishi Mela 2026. Hosted by UAS Dharwad, we spent four days interacting with farming communities, showing them our biochar work and the results behind it, season on season. By the end, close to 1,500 farmers wanted to know more. More on that soon. ❤️ 95, and counting. We closed September as a team of 95, a number that will keep growing as we scale. We're building this team the same way we build our projects: with intention and purpose. The month gave us a lot to build on and October has us on the road again. There is more work ahead, and we are ready for it.

Last week, our founder Siddhanth spoke at Climate Week NYC on the smallholder agroforestry solutions, alongside James Schultz, Megan Reilly Cayten and Michael Jenkins. Our agroforestry project, Swiftgreen, begins with the tribal farming communities. They choose what suits their land and livelihood, and we build around that choice. Across the conversations we had that week, the room felt more pragmatic about what it actually takes to scale nature-based work than we've seen before. One theme kept coming back: delivery. In the carbon space, a promise only counts once it has been delivered, and buyers, investors and communities all need to trust that it has. At EQ, that means building with the communities we work alongside, using technology to track what is happening on the ground, being honest about what's working and what isn't, and having independent ratings confirm the results. Integrity is what keeps a carbon commitment credible over the long term. Thank you to our fellow panelists and to the Climate Week NYC team for a thoughtful conversation. #ClimateWeekNYC #Agroforestry #NatureBasedSolutions

Two for two on the A's. Swiftgreen, developed with GreenCollar, has earned a Sylvera Pre-Issuance Rating of 'A' — our second project to receive one. Across the states of Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra, over 18,000 farmers are growing native and mixed-use trees and bamboo on land they've always owned, keeping full ownership of everything it yields. Every planting event is tracked through our GeoAI dMRV system, cross-validating field data, GIS and remote sensing so each one stays geo-referenced and audit-ready. That's exactly what an independent rating checks for. Two projects in, and it's still the same feeling: relief, pride, then straight back to work. Grateful to the farmers, GreenCollar, and our team building this. To read more, head to the link in comments. 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢��𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 www.sylvera.com 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

Our agroforestry work across central India has been built around smallholder and tribal farming communities, not retrofitting community benefit onto a model built for someone else. We’re excited to bring this work to Climate Week NYC, where Siddhanth Jayaram will be joining GreenCollar, Climate Asset Management, and Forest Trends for a panel on what it actually takes to bring smallholder farmer-led nature-based projects to investment grade. Join us here: https://luma.com/m0xusr4p Catch us around NYCW all week at: 🌱 CDR Summit by Puro.earth 🌱 The Future of Carbon Finance: Scaling Finance for Nature-based Climate Solutions presented by Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Natural Climate Solutions Initiative, Stanford Sustainability Accelerator 🌱 Sundown Soiree by Planeteer Capital 🌱 Carbon Removal Community Reception by Carbon Business Council 🌱 Nature, Tech, and Targets: Corporate insights on Long-Term Carbon Removal Programs by goodcarbon Forvis Mazars 🌱 NYC Climate Week Breakfast: CDR at Industrial Scale by Isometric 🌱 Global Tech CDR: Reality Check by NextGen CDR 🌱 Panel & Happy Hour: Nature at the Scale We Need BY Isometric 🌱 The Superpollutant Happy Hour by NYC Climate Week 🌱 Symbiosis Coalition in the Park by #Symbiosis 🌱 Signal over noise: Grounding CDR decisions in data and experience and Turning the tide: Sailing trip on the Hudson by ClimeFi 🌱 The Carbon Market Social Hosted with S3 Markets by Sylvera 🌱 Root of the Matter: Debating the Future of Nature-Based Carbon Removal by Ponterra 🌱 2026 Climate Capital Summit https://lnkd.in/esJyPH_v 🌱 NYCW's Last Call by Lowercarbon Capital #ClimateWeekNYC

The land is the only asset for most farmers and climate change keeps putting it at risk. So when the new plantations started taking root, or the soil started to  hold differently than it used to, it was something closer to relief. We've watched that show up in small ways: more farmers coming together, their kids running circles around the fields, neighbours stopping by just to see the same patch of ground together. That ease only comes from trust built slowly, working alongside people. It’s not something we can claim, only something we keep trying to earn, season by season. Photographs by Snehanshu Harsh from his recent visit to one of our nature-based projects in Madhya Pradesh. #CommunityFirst #Agroforestry #NatureBasedSolutions

This is personal to us, in more ways than one. Grateful for Kalaari's trust, and for staying close to our work. Vani Kola Vatsala Hali Upasana Sarkar #CommunityDriven #ClimateAction #CarbonRemoval

27,000 farmers, 30,000 hectares, one belief: carbon removal works when done with intention. And the work as it actually happens — patient, rooted, built season after season. Our founder chose to build this from the ground up because he realised trust, not demand, was the real bottleneck. The Better India spent time understanding what that takes on the ground — soil, trust, and years of showing up. Read the story below.

The climate funding gap isn't just about how much capital exists. It's about when it shows up. A thread on sequencing — and why getting the order wrong is why good projects stall. 🧵 #ClimateFinance #BlendedFinance #NatureBasedSolutions

There's a comfortable story we tell about climate action: governments will regulate, companies will innovate, NGOs will advocate — and it will all add up. It doesn't. Not because anyone's failing. But because the job was never designed to be done by one sector alone. What works instead. 🧵 #ClimateAction #CrossSector #Restoration #CarbonRemoval #ClimateTech

A kiln. A community. A measurement. A market. Four elements. One system. This is Carbon In Their Hands, the full picture. #CarbonInTheirHands #Biochar #CarbonRemoval #ClimateAction