An ISO-14064 certified GHG auditor across VCS, Gold Standard, ICR and Plan Vivo projects, with a background in plant taxonomy that shapes how species are chosen and plantations are designed. Founder of Flora Carbon AI, building forestry carbon projects and the dMRV tooling to verify them.
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Co-described Croton chakrabartyi with M. Nandikar while resolving a 180-year-old taxonomic puzzle around Nimmo's Croton. The same work rediscovered Croton gibsonianus Nimmo — Maharashtra's only endemic tree — at Harishchandragad, 170 years after it was last recorded.
Photo: Manir DhabakIUCN Red List assessments
Originating and designing afforestation, reforestation and revegetation projects — from eligibility and additionality through to a project design document that will survive validation.
ISO-14064 certified assessment of GHG mitigation projects. Validation and verification planning for on-site and remote audit, and the resolution of findings that follows.
We talk through the land, the tenure situation, who holds the rights and what you want the project to achieve. This is where we work out whether a carbon project is genuinely the right instrument, before anyone spends money finding out.
Eligibility against the standard, additionality, land history and a first carbon estimate. You get an honest read on whether the project stacks up — including when the answer is that it does not.
The project design document, species and planting strategy, monitoring plan and the community agreements that sit underneath it. Species selection here is a taxonomic decision, not a procurement one.
Preparing for the validation audit, supporting the VVB through site visits and evidence requests, resolving findings and carrying the project through to registration with the standard.
Monitoring against the plan, preparing for periodic verification and issuance. This is the part that determines whether credits keep coming, so it is built into the design from the start rather than bolted on.
VCS (Verra), Gold Standard, Plan Vivo and ICR. I have audited ARR projects under all four as a certified assessor, which means project design decisions are made with a clear view of how they will be tested at validation.
Afforestation, reforestation and revegetation — including mangrove restoration and agroforestry. My work has been across India, Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, Uganda and Senegal, and I am comfortable with community and smallholder projects where the social architecture matters as much as the carbon.
Longer than most people expect. Feasibility and project design typically run several months; validation and registration add more; and ARR projects only issue credits once growth has actually been monitored and verified. I would rather set that expectation at the first call than halfway through.
Land details and boundaries, whatever you know about tenure and land-use history, who the communities and stakeholders are, and your timeline and funding position. If there is existing project documentation or prior feasibility work, that helps too.
Yes. A good deal of my work is advisory — supporting a team that already has a project underway, on certification compliance, species and seed strategy, or preparing for a verification cycle.
Email is best — manir@floracarbon.ai. Tell me where the land is, roughly how large it is and what stage you are at, and I can usually tell you quickly whether it is worth a longer conversation.
