Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min · 1 segments
In the next episode of Conversations at India Tech Report, catch an interview with Siddhanth Jayaram, founder and CEO of Equilibrium, a “full-stack” carbon credits company that specialises in…
The way I look at the pricing of the credits is, you know, a pyramid, right? At the top of the pyramid, you have your engineered carbon removal solutions.
And again, it's based on certain industry parameters like permanence, additionality, you know, novelty to an extent as well, right? And it is very homogeneous.
So at the top of the pyramid are like your solutions that directly capture air from the atmosphere.
You have bioengineered carbon storage where, you know, in the Western world, you're, you're, taking biomass and storing it in the ground for uh centuries right uh so these engineered solutions get priced at somewhere north of 500 odd dollars right uh per credit right uh i almost call them as the luxury uh gucci balenciaga equivalent of of the carbon credit market right um There's now a new set of solutions like enhanced rock weathering and biochar that get priced somewhere between $100 to $200 odd.
I'm just giving consumers a... an equivalent, right? That's where Biochar and ERW are.
Then you have your nature solutions, which is sort of your transition to climate, smart agriculture, your agroforestry, your avoid, not avoided, but you know, your mangroves, right? These are priced somewhere between you know, $20 to $30 on the lower end and for good high quality projects, somewhere between $60 to $70, right? Almost like your Zara equivalent, right? In the consumer context.
And then there are your avoidance credits, which is like your renewable energy, your transition to EV, your transition to clean cooking, your biogas digesters, Right.
And all of these are very very important in terms of aiding the climate transition.
But if you see what's common with all of these, they help avoid or remove one ton of carbon.
The way I look at the pricing of the credits is, you know, a pyramid, right? At the top of the pyramid, you have your engineered carbon removal solutions.
And again, it's based on certain industry parameters like permanence, additionality, you know, novelty to an extent as well, right? And it is very homogeneous.
So at the top of the pyramid are like your solutions that directly capture air from the atmosphere.
You have bioengineered carbon storage where, you know, in the Western world, you're, you're, taking biomass and storing it in the ground for uh centuries right uh so these engineered solutions get priced at somewhere north of 500 odd dollars right uh per credit right uh i almost call them as the luxury uh gucci balenciaga equivalent of of the carbon credit market right um There's now a new set of solutions like enhanced rock weathering and biochar that get priced somewhere between $100 to $200 odd.
I'm just giving consumers a... an equivalent, right? That's where Biochar and ERW are.
Then you have your nature solutions, which is sort of your transition to climate, smart agriculture, your agroforestry, your avoid, not avoided, but you know, your mangroves, right? These are priced somewhere between you know, $20 to $30 on the lower end and for good high quality projects, somewhere between $60 to $70, right? Almost like your Zara equivalent, right? In the consumer context.
And then there are your avoidance credits, which is like your renewable energy, your transition to EV, your transition to clean cooking, your biogas digesters, Right.
And all of these are very very important in terms of aiding the climate transition.
But if you see what's common with all of these, they help avoid or remove one ton of carbon.
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