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We publish nothing that only restates what is already available. Every page carries either original data, a mechanism explained more precisely than existing sources, first hand experience from our own work, or a claim traced to the primary document rather than to a news summary of it. Where a figure could not be verified, the sentence is written without it.
How this business works
The structural decisions that decide whether a restoration or energy project earns anything, written from what actually goes wrong.
Why do most tree planting projects fail, and what separates the ones that do not?
The structural reasons plantation projects fail, why survival counts are rarely published, and what a project designed for year fifteen looks like instead.
Read PracticeWhy do most Indian afforestation companies stay small, and what is the alternative?
The structural difference between being paid to plant and owning what you plant, why the contractor model caps a business permanently, and what the solar sector already worked out.
ReadLand and restoration
What a parcel produces, when each stream arrives, and how a block is designed so the fast income pays for the slow canopy.
Technology
How the equipment and the chemistry actually work, including the cases where the fashionable answer is the wrong one.
What is green hydrogen, and when is it actually the right answer?
A working explanation of green hydrogen, how it differs from grey and blue hydrogen, and the specific conditions that decide whether a project should be built.
Read TechnologyWhat is biochar, and why is it treated as durable carbon removal?
How pyrolysis turns crop and woody residue into stable carbon, why buyers treat biochar as durable removal, and what determines whether a given batch is any good.
ReadCarbon and markets
How carbon credits are created, who buys them, and why a great many of them turned out to be worth less than they claimed.
What is the difference between avoidance and removal carbon credits?
Why avoidance credits carry a counterfactual problem that removal credits do not, how durability separates one removal from another, and why premium buyers have moved decisively toward durable removal.
Read MechanismsWho actually buys carbon removal, and why is demand growing?
Why the AI build out has turned technology companies into the most serious buyers of carbon removal, what they will and will not purchase, and what that means for a project developer in India.
ReadIndian policy and rules
What the current Indian rules require, traced to primary sources, because most published summaries repeat figures that are out of date.
Can private companies establish plantations on forest land in India?
What the January 2026 amendment changed, why removing the NPV and compensatory afforestation requirement is contested, and why we treat forest land as an option rather than a foundation.
Read PolicyWhat is the biomass co-firing requirement for Indian thermal power plants?
What the 2025-26 Ministry of Power co-firing policy actually requires, why the widely repeated 7 per cent figure is wrong for most of India, and what it means for anyone supplying pellets.
Read PolicyCan Indian CSR funds be used for afforestation and environmental projects?
How Section 135 and Schedule VII work, what makes environmental projects eligible, and the practical requirements that decide whether a company can actually route CSR money to your project.
Read PolicyHow does India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme work?
How the CCTS baseline and credit mechanism works, why an intensity target is different from an emissions cap, and what it means for anyone producing carbon credits in India.
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