Paris-Based Equitable Earth Secures €12.6 Million Funding In Series A Round

The round was led by a U.S.-based family office, with participation from existing investors AENU, noa, and Localglobe, bringing the company’s total funding to over €25 million.

“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.

Founded in 2020, Equitable Earth says its certification programme has been formally recognised as eligible under the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)’s Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), the highest benchmark for quality in the voluntary carbon market.

The company’s model is designed to ensure climate finance reaches threatened ecosystems more quickly and reliably. Its digital certification platform streamlines project development with in-house carbon accounting and risk modelling supported by centralised, standardised systems. Equitable Earth also provides transparent, cost-effective monitoring and reporting tools.

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Projects are required to demonstrate measurable benefits for climate, nature, and local communities through a structured approach. A core element of the model is community engagement, including defined requirements for participation, protection and equitable benefit sharing with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

“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, investor at noa, Europe’s largest built world VC.

The new funding will be used to strengthen technology and tools, including data systems, modelling and user-focused features, to enable faster and more transparent certification within a single integrated platform.

Equitable Earth also plans to expand its research and development, engineering, commercial, and certification teams. The company aims to certify millions of additional hectares, increasing the global supply of nature-based credits, while developing new methodologies to support a wider range of threatened ecosystems.

In July last year, Ecosystem Restoration Standard (ERS) rebranded as Equitable Earth, creating a unified global standard for forest conservation and restoration within carbon markets.

The rebrand followed ERS’s acquisition of Equitable Earth, a forest carbon standard developed by a global coalition of more than 125 experts from 60 organisations, including Indigenous leaders, scientists, policymakers, and civil society representatives, focused on combating deforestation and ensuring fair investment in forest stewardship.

About Equitable Earth

Equitable Earth (formerly ERS) is a global standard for conservation and restoration projects in carbon markets. Founded in 2020, its ICVCM-approved programme uses advanced technology to certify projects that deliver measurable benefits for climate, nature and local livelihoods worldwide.