ABOUT
Arka was born from a simple conviction: carbon markets, when built on rigorous standards, are one of the most powerful tools to finance the ecological transition. Here is who we are, what guides our practice, and the team behind the marketplace.
The voluntary carbon market is still young, shifting, and uneven. Choosing your carbon partner isn't choosing a transaction, it's choosing who will inform your climate strategy for years to come. Here is what guides our practice.
We operate at the intersection of voluntary carbon markets, certification standards, and project development. Every methodology has its strengths and blind spots, every registry its issuance and retirement practices, every standard its own ICVCM recognition profile. We know what separates a high-integrity credit from a reputational liability, and we apply that lens to every project we evaluate, without concessions to fashion.
We only work with projects certified under the market's recognised standards, Gold Standard, Verra VCS, ISO 14064-2, with a preference for methodologies aligned with the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles, and that deliver meaningful co-benefits: biodiversity, soil health, water, and farmer livelihoods. Before listing a developer in our portfolio, we audit their methodology, MRV, governance, and the quality of their on-the-ground narrative. We source from France and across Europe, where geographic proximity enables independent verification and an authentic story.
Carbon contribution is not a one-off purchase, it is a multi-year strategy aligned with your SBTi trajectory and BVCM ambition. We help you structure, document, and evolve your contribution over time: from first spot credit to long-term offtake, from first internal communication to audited sustainability report. Our work doesn't stop at the transaction, it starts with your climate ambition and extends through the public defense of your claims.
We rely on recognised standards. Our role is to select high-integrity projects and provide buyers with the documentation needed to contribute with confidence.
The project is registered under a credible standard with a verifiable public registry entry.
Operational track record, team expertise, transparency and relationships with farmers or facility operators.
Monitoring, reporting and verification quality beyond minimum standard requirements.
Verified co-benefits and no-harm principle, adapted per project type.
Can buyers use these credits confidently in their reporting, whether in Europe or the United States?
I founded Arka with a conviction: voluntary carbon markets, when built on rigorous standards, are one of the most powerful tools to finance the ecological transition, and to make carbon a genuine currency of environmental value.
Our work focuses on linking high-quality carbon credit supply with corporate buyers, intermediaries, and institutional capital engaging with climate and natural capital markets. We support project developers and climate ventures in structuring demand: through corporate spot purchases, offtake agreements, strategic buyer relationships, and market access development.
With an engineering background, I spent more than 14 years in technology ventures (including 8 in the US) in data analysis or product, operations, and business development roles. For several years, I have dedicated myself to the voluntary carbon markets: mapping high-integrity projects, understanding certification standards, and establishing connections between supply and demand to build market liquidity.
No exposure to a single developer, no conflict of interest. No fund to deploy, no inventory to clear. We work for our clients' impact, not for a stock to sell.
We anchor to recognized standards (SBTi, ICVCM, VCMI, ESRS) and refuse methodological shortcuts. When a project doesn't hold up scientifically, we say so.
Transparent selection criteria, retirements documented on public registries, the economics of each transaction laid out in the attestation letter. Our clients see what we see.
We prioritize French and European projects, not by preference, but because geographic proximity enables independent verification and an authentic story to tell.
Our first developer partnership, with Gaïago, illustrates our approach. A French pioneer in agricultural soil regeneration, Gaïago combines rigorous soil carbon methodology, robust MRV, and on-the-ground roots with French and European farmers engaged in measurable agroecological transition. This is exactly the type of project we seek to highlight: scientific integrity, documented co-benefits (biodiversity, soil health, farmer livelihoods), and an authentic field-based narrative. More partnerships will follow, selected with the same rigor.
