8/1/2026
Equitable Earth today announced a €12.6 million financing round to become the global standard for nature-based carbon projects. Led by a US-based family office and supported by existing investors including AENU, noa and Localglobe, the round brings the company’s total funding to over €25 million. The capital will enable Equitable Earth to accelerate the expansion of its certification programme and continue investing in market-leading data, technology and methodologies.
Over the past five years, Equitable Earth has established itself as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing providers of certification for nature-based carbon projects. The programme has been formally recognised as eligible against the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)’s Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), the market’s highest benchmark for quality. Its Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) methodology is cited by independent carbon ratings agency Sylvera as among the most rigorous and trustworthy in the market, recognition that its recently released REDD+ methodology is also expected to earn.
A New Model for Speed, Trust, and Equity
Protecting and restoring nature remains one of the most powerful, immediate, and cost-effective climate solutions. To achieve its potential, carbon markets need approaches that are trusted, more transparent, and more scalable, enabling climate finance to reach threatened ecosystems more quickly and reliably.
The Equitable Earth Standard directly addresses this challenge, pioneering a new model that combines:Fully Digital Certification Platform: Streamlining the project journey and enabling developers to progress efficiently, reducing costs and delays.
Centralised, Standardised Accounting: Managing carbon accounting and risk modelling in-house to reduce uncertainty, eliminate conflicts of interest, and ensure consistency across all projects.
Advanced Remote Sensing Technology: Deploying cutting-edge tools for transparent and cost-effective monitoring and reporting with clear and rigorous measurements of uncertainty.
Core Benefits, Not Co-Benefits: Requiring projects to deliver measurable benefits for climate, nature, and local communities through a structured, interconnected approach built around ecological condition, carbon, and livelihoods.
Deep Community Engagement: Establishing measurable requirements for participation, protection, and equitable benefit sharing with Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs & LCs).
“Equitable Earth continues to focus on enabling organisations to protect and restore the natural world by certifying projects in a trusted, scalable way. This new round of funding allows us to continue to grow and establish ourselves as the global standard for nature-based projects,” said Thibault Sorret, CEO of Equitable Earth.
“The carbon markets need scalable, reliable projects that deliver real climate, ecological, and social outcomes. This funding helps Equitable Earth to meet that demand, cementing its position as a market leader in high-integrity, nature-based certification,” said Arjun Jairaj, noa.
Accelerating Global Deployment
The funding will be immediately deployed to:Enhance Technology & Tools: Build on a market-leading digital platform with further investment into data systems, modelling, and user-centric tools to enable faster, more transparent certification in one integrated platform.
Grow the Team: Hiring new talent to maintain speed and responsiveness, expanding the Research & Development, Engineering, Commercial, and Certification teams.
Increase Supply: Certify millions of additional hectares, dramatically increasing the global supply of trusted, high-integrity nature-based credits.
Expand Reach: Build new methodologies to cover more threatened ecosystems.