Stasis Carbon was built on a single, uncomfortable observation — India's agricultural land is degrading faster than any climate model accounts for, and the farmers doing the most damage are the ones with the least choice. We built the infrastructure to change that equation.
India has 140 million farming families. The majority are caught in what agronomists call the chemical treadmill — a cycle of fertilisers and pesticides that increases short-term yield while destroying the soil's long-term capacity to produce anything. Soil organic carbon in Indian agricultural land has fallen from 2–3% to under 0.5% in many regions over the past five decades. Each season, the land requires more inputs to produce the same output. Each season, the farmer goes deeper into debt to buy those inputs.
The farmer knows this is wrong. The knowledge is not the problem. The economics are. Sustainable agriculture — biochar application, crop rotation, reduced chemical input — requires an upfront investment and delivers benefits over years, not one season. For a family living on ₹8,000–12,000 a month, that timeline is not available.
"The carbon market exists precisely to solve this. It is a mechanism for making long-term environmental stewardship immediately economically rational. But when we looked at how it was functioning in India, we found a different problem — the infrastructure to access the market didn't exist."
350+ operational bio-pellet plants across India were generating real, measurable biochar. Almost none were registered for carbon credits. 400 million smallholder farmers were stewarding land that could generate nature-based credits. Almost none had access to the legal, technical, and financial stack required to do so. The gap was not agricultural — it was infrastructural.
Stasis Carbon was founded to close that gap. Not as a registry. Not as a broker. As the end-to-end infrastructure layer that makes an Indian carbon project institutional-grade — GPS-chained MRV, independent ratings, reversal insurance, ISDA-based forward contracts, and a direct payment mechanism that puts maximum revenue in the farmer's Aadhaar-linked bank account, not an intermediary's account.
The cooperative bank model — our long-term vision — goes further. When carbon credit revenue surplus capitalises a farmer-owned cooperative, the economic infrastructure that holds farmers in the chemical treadmill gets systematically dismantled. Not by policy. By a financial structure that makes the alternative more attractive.
Abhimanyu is a climate-tech entrepreneur with a B.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from NIT Rourkela — a background that gave him a materials scientist's instinct for what permanence actually means in a carbon context.
He previously co-founded Ubreathe, India's first plant-based bio-filtration air purifier brand, raising $242K and building the company from concept to market. He has consulted on large-scale EV fleet transition programmes with government bodies and has deep experience integrating clean tech data systems for MRV and carbon reporting.
At Stasis Carbon, Abhimanyu leads strategy, market development, and the overall platform architecture — connecting India's grassroots carbon supply with institutional global demand.
linkedin.com/in/abhimanyu-kadiyanAnkit brings deep operational expertise in project execution, regulatory navigation, and on-ground programme management — the capabilities that determine whether a carbon project actually delivers credits or remains a well-intentioned concept.
His background spans carbon project development, farming community engagement, and the operational complexities of running multi-state programmes across India's diverse agricultural landscape. He understands what the farmer actually needs — not in theory, but from the field.
At Stasis Carbon, Ankit leads operations, project onboarding, farmer programme management, and the development of the cooperative model from concept to regulatory reality.
linkedin.com/in/ankit-sharma-51966015We are building a team of carbon market specialists, agricultural scientists, and financial engineers. Reach out if you want to be part of it.
The window for building India's carbon infrastructure is not indefinite. Three regulatory forcing functions are converging simultaneously — and the projects that are registered, rated, and insured before they activate will capture the premium.
The Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, administered by BEE, targets trading launch in 2026. Eight energy-intensive sectors face compliance obligations. Domestic carbon credit demand will be substantial — and the projects with verified stock ready will command early-mover pricing. We have 69,213 tCO₂e of ARR verified stock available today.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive's first mandatory reports have begun filing. 50,000+ EU companies must now disclose their carbon strategies. Article 8 requires biodiversity and community co-benefit data that almost no other Indian credit provides. Our ARR programme is one of the few that does — with auditable farmer payment trails and annual VVB review.
SBTi's Corporate Net-Zero Standard requires permanent CDR for residual emissions from 2030. Biochar CDR with 100–1,000 year permanence is one of the few available CDR pathways that meets this standard at scale today. Companies that have not secured multi-year forward contracts will face a supply crunch at exactly the moment they need delivery. Our forward contract structure is available now.
Built for CCTS, BEE, MCA, and India's agricultural reality — not adapted from a Western framework that treats India as an edge case. Our legal structures, payment rails, and monitoring protocols are designed for how India actually works.
We build the MRV hardware, arrange the ratings, and structure the insurance before bringing a project to market. We are not a listing platform. Every credit that leaves Stasis Carbon has been through the full stack.
Our farmer platform is a behaviour change system. Carbon revenue is the incentive mechanism. Soil health, reduced chemical dependency, and long-term agricultural productivity are the outcomes. The credit is the product. The healthier farm is the point.
We disclose what isn't ready — pending tree tagging corrective actions, ratings under process, translations in progress. In a market that has been damaged by opacity, transparency is a competitive advantage, not a vulnerability.
No other carbon platform is building a farmer-owned cooperative bank capitalised by carbon surplus revenue. It is a long-term vision — but it is the structural difference between a carbon project and a civilisational infrastructure play.
We earn when you earn. Zero upfront cost to project owners. Success fee only on credit sales. Our incentives are aligned with project performance — not with registration fees or annual platform charges.