CarbonForge Reserve credits
Northeast India · 8 states · Forest carbon

Up to 10 million carbon credits a year.* Growing wild in Northeast India.

India’s last great forest carbon frontier is owned by its villages, not the state, and the market has barely touched it. CarbonForge is the engine that turns those forests into credits buyers can trust: every tree measured, every plot watched from orbit, every figure sealed for the verifier.

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Layered forested ridges of the Eastern Himalaya, drawn from satellite elevation data Eastern Himalaya133 km · 6,850 m 95 km4,815 m 60 km3,730 m 5 km
The real skyline west over the Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh, from a 2,634 m hilltop. Drawn from satellite elevation data, heights exaggerated 2.2 times.
Live demo

See the engine run on a real-world village.

A demo village in the Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh, can be loaded into this site: consent, farmers, mapped plots, measured trees and satellite readings. Every figure below is worked out live, in your browser, by the same carbon maths a verifier would run.

Field appWhat a field team sees on a budget Android phone, offline.Open → Auditor portalEvery plot on one map, with its evidence, satellite record and credit estimate.Open → Buyer marketplaceHow corporate buyers reserve credits from named villages.Open →
Why Northeast India

The forest is already there. The owners can sign today.

Everywhere else in India, forests belong to the state. In the Northeast, most belong to villages and clans, protected by the Constitution. That makes it the one place in the country where a carbon project can be signed directly with the people who own the forest.

63%of the Northeast’s recorded forest is owned by communities and clans, not the state. That is 9.3 million hectares that villages can enrol directly.
1 billiontonnesof carbon stand in Arunachal Pradesh’s forests alone, the largest forest carbon stock of any state in India.
~10Mcredits / yrif those community forests performed like Khasi Hills, India’s first community forest carbon project.

Sources: Forest Survey of India, India State of Forest Report 2023 (Arunachal carbon stock 1,021 Mt; Northeast recorded forest 147,127 km², of which 93,212 km² community or clan owned, as tabulated in Common Pool Resources in North East India). Credit estimate: the Khasi Hills Community REDD+ project, Meghalaya, expects 860,104 tCO₂e over 30 years on 27,139 ha, about 1.06 credits per hectare per year, applied to the 9.3 million hectares of community forest. An indicative estimate, not a forecast.

The platform

One record, from the forest floor to the registry.

Every tree, photo and payment is written once, on the phone that recorded it. The auditor portal and the buyer marketplace read that same record, so nothing is retyped and nothing can drift.

MeasureCarbonForge dMRV

The field app, for a budget Android phone with no signal.

  • Village consent and each farmer’s agreement, on record
  • Plot boundaries walked with GPS, even under canopy
  • Trees measured in random 10 m boxes, harvests paid by UPI
Open the field app →

VerifyAuditor Portal

Every plot on one map, its evidence one click away.

  • Satellite checks every five days, radar through the monsoon
  • Blind re-measurement and re-drawable sample boxes
  • Sealed audit bundles and registry exports
Open the auditor portal →

SellCarbonForge Carbon

Credits from named villages, with the evidence behind them.

  • Buyers reserve future credits at no cost
  • Each project’s locked, verified data in a data room
  • A public ledger of what communities were paid
Reserve credits →
How a credit is forged

Five steps, one unbroken chain of evidence.

Each step leaves a record the next one depends on, so nothing reaches a registry without its consent, boundary and measurements attached.

  1. Consent

    The village council’s free, prior and informed consent is photographed and dated. No plot counts without it.

  2. Enrol

    Communities keep their land. Tenure proof and a signed benefit-sharing agreement are captured on the phone.

  3. Map

    Boundaries are walked with averaged GPS. Overlaps above 1% are refused across every team.

  4. Measure

    Random 10 m boxes in each plot: trunk diameter, height and species for every tree, tagged with QR.

  5. Monitor and verify

    Satellites watch every plot every five days, then a sealed bundle goes to the verifier.

Integrity

Built so a verifier can check it, not just trust it.

Tamper-evident evidence
Photos come only from the live camera, stamped with time and GPS and hashed with SHA-256 the moment they are taken.
Re-drawable sampling
Sample boxes come from a generator seeded with the plot id, so an auditor can re-create exactly the same boxes.
One carbon formula
Chave et al. (2014) allometry runs identically on the phone and in the database, so field and registry figures agree.
Sees through the monsoon
Sentinel-2 vegetation index plus Sentinel-1 radar, which reads canopy through cloud, with NASA FIRMS fire alerts.
Sealed audit bundle
Boundaries, trees, photos, satellite series and payouts in one ZIP, with a SHA-256 manifest for every file.
Works with no signal
Everything is recorded offline on a budget phone and synced when the team is back in range.
Registry pathways

Every land type has a route to market.

Plan Vivo
Community forest

Community forest protection and restoration, the standard behind Northeast India’s first community forest carbon project in the Khasi Hills.

Verra VM0047
Farm trees

Trees on agroforestry, shade-spice and timber plots, measured by census and sample boxes.

Global Artisan C-Sink
Biochar

Durable removals from crop residue that would otherwise be burnt, with Puro.earth as the alternative route.

No credits have been issued yet. Each project is confirmed with its registry before it is listed; first issuance is expected from 2028.

Community-owned, by design.

  • Land is enrolled, never acquired. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
  • Payments go straight to each farmer’s UPI, and every rupee is on a public ledger.
  • Shade-spice harvests are weighed, photographed and QR-tagged, so every payout traces back to its source.