Our projects

Our projects integrate climate action with positive health and social impact, aligning with multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while generating high-quality carbon credits.

Currently, we are managing five active projects—four in India and one in Nepal. CIC is expanding its initiatives to additional regions within India, and to countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and, over time, Southeast Asia and Africa.

Over the next 5-10 years, CIC aims to benefit 5 to 10 million people and reduce 25 to 50 million tonnes of CO2e emissions throughout the lifespan of these projects.

  • Globally, 2.2 billion people – 1 in 4 – lack access to safe water. Each year, 829,000 people die from diseases directly attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene practices.

    Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is still responsible for the deaths of around 400,000 children under the age of 5 each year, or 1,000 every day.

    $260 billion is lost globally each year due to lack of basic water and sanitation.

    India specific:

    • India is home to 63.4 million rural people without access to clean water, the highest in the world.

    • 40% Indians will have no access to drinking water by 2030.

    • 21% of communicable diseases are linked to unsafe water.

    • The prevalence of childhood diarrhoea has increased from 9% to 9.2% from 2016 to 2020 in India.

    • The prevalence of waterborne diseases leads to an estimated economic burden of approximately USD 600 million per year in India.

  • • Provide free/subsidised devices and infrastructure at household and community level, in partnership with local NGOs and social enterprises.

    • Substantively contribute to multiple UN SDGs.

    • Planning, implementation and monitoring via digital platforms and independent verification to ensure carbon registry compliance.

    • Availability of clean drinking water to the beneficiaries for over 10 years.

  • So far, the interventions have provided clean drinking water access to over 225,000 people, aligning with multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

    • UNSDG 1: 100% access to basic services at zero/nominal costs, reducing poverty within project areas.

    • UNSDG 3: Reduction in waterborne diseases across 45,218 households by filtering 350M litres of water annually.

    • UNSDG 4: Advancement in education with digital literacy training to 150 individuals.

    • UNSDG 5: Women are saving 589 hours per household per annum, promoting gender equality.

    • UNSDG 6: Over 225,000 people have clean water infrastructure, thereby promoting safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.

    • UNSDG 7: Provides low/zero energy solutions to access clean water.

    • UNSDG 8: 180 individuals have been employed under various project activities.

    • UNSDG 9: Promotes local SMEs like Watsan Envirotech Private Limited through water filter usage.

    • UNSDG 10: Addresses social inequalities by providing clean water to 45,218 vulnerable households.

    • UNSDG 13: Expected to reduce 1,664,660 tonnes of CO2e emissions over 10 years, contributing to climate action.

    • UNSDG 15: Saves 183,918 tonnes of fuelwood per household per annum, preserving tree cover and biodiversity.

    • UNSDG 17: Collaborates with several partners in project implementation, technology, and finance sectors, enabling impact at scale.

Clean water

  • • 2.6 billion people or 1 in 3 globally, lack access to safe, clean cooking fuels and technology.

    • 4 million people die annually from cancer and lung diseases related to indoor pollution from cooking fires.

    • Household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year in 2020, including over 237 000 deaths of children under the age of 5.

    • Women and children, typically responsible for household chores such as cooking collecting firewood, bear the greatest health burden from the use of polluting fuels and technologies in homes.

    • 32% of all fire wood collected for cooking are done so unsustainably, contributing to deforestation and climate change.

    India specific:

    • 41% of the Indian population still uses wood, cow dung or other biomass as cooking fuel and cumulatively emits around 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the environment every year.

    • Solid fuel burned for coking accounted for six lakh premature deaths in 2019 in India.

    • 27 of every 1000 babies and children die due to exposure to dirty cooking fuels in India.

  • • Distribution of clean cookstoves via our network of partner NGOs and social enterprises

    • Training community leaders to implement the building of clean cookstoves in their villages

    • Planning, implementation and monitoring via digital platforms and independent verification to ensure carbon registry compliance

  • • So far, the project has provided 25,610 people with improved cookstoves, aligning with 9 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

    • UNSDG 1: 100% access to basic services at zero/nominal costs, and increased savings due to decrease in expenditure on medical expenses, reducing poverty within project areas.

    • UNSDG 3: All households have achieved a 100% reduction in indoor pollution, thereby decreasing occurrences of diseases caused by air pollutants.

    • UNSDG 4: Advancement in education with digital literacy training to 269 individuals.

    • UNSDG 5: Women are now saving 1560 hours in time previously allocated to cooking and collecting fuelwood annually per household, thereby advancing gender equality efforts.

    • UNSDG 7: Provides clean cooking solution to 5,122 households.

    • UNSDG 8: 269 individuals have been employed under various project activities.

    • UNSDG 9: Promotes and supports 9 local enterprises.

    • UNSDG 13: Reduces approximately 23,249 tonnes of CO2e emissions annually, contributing to climate action.

    • UNSDG 15: Saves 13,797 tonnes of fuelwood per household per annum, preserving tree cover and biodiversity.

    • UNSDG 17: Collaborates with several partners in project implementation, technology, and finance sectors, enabling impact at scale.

Clean cooking

  • • When farmers simply leave crop residue on the field to decompose, only about 10 to 20 per cent of the residue carbon is recycled into soil

    • The decomposition/burning of organic waste result in emission of greenhouse gases

    • Agriculture, forestry and land use accounts for over 18 per cent of global greenhouse emissions

  • • Setting up of biochar processing facilities in agricultural communities, and training farmers to produce biochar using agricultural waste

    • Planning, implementation and monitoring via digital platforms and independent verification to ensure carbon registry compliance

    • Carbon sequestration for 100+ years

  • • Reduction in greenhouse gases emission from agricultural waste

    • Soil amendments using biochar improve soil quality for climate adaptation as it can better withstand inclement weather and improves crop yield for farmers

Biochar

  • • Climate change and human activities have damaged natural ecosystems causing deforestation, loss of biodiversity, food security, disaster risk

    • Between 2015 and 2019, at least 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land were degraded every year, impacting the lives of 1.3 billion people

    • Nature-based solutions are actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural ecosystems

  • • Afforestation projects to establish a forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no recent tree cover

    • Agroforestry to establish land use management systems in which combinations of trees are grown around or among crops or pasture. Agroforestry combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems.

    • Mangrove restoration for the regeneration and rehabilitation of mangrove forest ecosystems in areas where they have previously existed for better coastal protection and biodiversity.

Nature-based solutions

Transforming a billion lives

We firmly believe that partnerships are essential to address the significant global challenges we face. We partner with several non-profit and social enterprises and empower them to deliver social impact at scale.

We welcome collaborations with foundations, impact investors, net zero target corporates, cleantech companies, and thought leaders to create a better world.