Arukah's Insight is that Solutions Must be Fit for Context to Scale Effectively
We aim to scale up high quality carbon removal and emissions reduction projects that meet global integrity requirements - while also driving transformative change in global carbon markets, focusing on the Global South.
Instead of directly transferring project design blueprints from the capital-rich Global North to the labor-rich Global South, we develop new, scalable blueprints that leverage the unique strengths and priorities of emerging markets - to scale new Gigaton-scale solutions from the Global South.
Our projects have a short development time and utilise best-in-class science and technology, supported by our innovative digital infrastructure for decision-useful, verified data and ecosystem payments.
Our vision is to scale 5 Gigatons of decarbonisation and mobilise $100 billion in climate finance over the next decade - bridging critical supply gaps for High Quality projects, while aligning with immediate priorities around economic livelihoods, food security and energy access.
Our Team
We are proudly anchored in Singapore, with our core team spanning 10-20 years each of experience across global capital markets, technology, climate policy, agriculture and ecology, and engineering.
Our investment and advisory committee and advisors comprise global leaders with 20-40 years each of experience across fields such as emerging market finance, credit in agriculture, long term infrastructure, biomass processing, chemical engineering, technology, last-mile sensors and decentralised data.
We are excited to bring these collective experiences together to build Arukah.
Building for the Global South, Focused on Agriculture
Gigaton-scale solutions for the Global South should focus on home market advantages - abundant agriculture waste and lower-cost labour - while honouring home market priorities, including high domestic demand for food and energy.
Hence we are starting with agriculture - agri-food accounts for 50% of Southeast Asia's emissions and 45% of South Asia's.
Globally, crop residue burning and pasture manure emissions totaled 0.37 and 0.53 gigatons of CO2 equivalent in 2019, with Asia responsible for 48% and 69% of those volumes, respectively.
The excessive use of chemical fertilisers and dumping of farm manure into freshwater lakes and rivers cause widespread pollution and ecological damage, including soil degradation. This not only harms the environment, but also threatens the livelihoods of communities reliant on healthy ecosystems, such as those engaged in fishing, agriculture and tourism.
Through the application of standard carbon credit methodologies for biogas and biochar, agricultural waste can be processed to generate not only High Quality carbon credits, but also valuable byproducts, such as biofuels, bio-oil and biofertiliser.
These outputs not only contribute to reducing emissions, but can also play a crucial role in bolstering energy and food security in the region.
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Driving Decarbonisation at Scale, for our Region and the Global South
While Singapore does not produce agriculture, our neighbours do - agriculture drives 12% of regional GDP, about $400 billion annually and growing.
And Singapore is a hub for financing - we are a leading global centre for agriculture commodities trade, and an emerging centre for sustainable finance and carbon market standards.
Anchored from the far-sighted policy ecosystem in Singapore, Arukah Capital aims to develop a trusted infrastructure for High Quality carbon credit projects.
A trusted platform for data and financing of High Quality projects that respect the context and unique strengths of the Global South, will contribute to our region's health in climate transition and post-Covid recovery - and also establish blueprints for other Global South climate transitions.
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