ACM 0080
Mitigation of GHG emissions with treatment of waste water in aerobic waste water treatment plants.
RADEEF
Who We Are
Carbon Market veterans Etti Khanna and Gagandeep Arya founded Erda Illumine in 2010 as a sustainable energy initiative. Prior to launching their own endeavor, Etti and Gagan worked as Climate Change Consultants for over 10 years since the above service originated in India, building an impressive repertoire of prestigious decarbonization projects across diverse industries and sectors.
What Sets Us Apart
In-depth Carbon Market Expertise
With 23 years as Clean Climate Practitioners, we have extensive technical, legal and commercial expertise and resources to ensure we start the right conversations, drive the most impactful collaborations, evolve methodologies where needed and then build high integrity climate projects.
Reputation for Quality
We understand that high integrity, high impact, and quality are imperative requisites for all Climate Projects given the shrinking window of opportunity. Our robust due diligence processes ensure that we deliver projects that are driven by these strong convictions.
Global Perspective, Local Understanding
We are an open-minded, open-hearted firm. A global perspective and transparency are integral to our brand, grounded in our ethos. In our endeavor to reflect all vantage points of all our local stakeholders worldwide, we start with an in-depth local empathy - We think about and work for everyone, challenging ourselves to cross borders, cultures, and languages to bring about the change needed.
Collaborative
culture
As the carbon ecosystem is not a zero-sum playing field we firmly believe in the spirit of collaboration, empathy and in empowering all our stakeholders, especially the marginalized and underserved. Our projects are driven by Climate Equity* and strong Co-benefits such as biodiversity protection and catalytic carbon fund distribution.
With 23 years as Climate Practitioners behind them, the Founding team has acquired hands on expertise in the areas of Methodology Development and of First of its kind Projects, which are now being/will be applied globally by all industries pursuing GHG Abatement Projects in order to avail Climate Credit revenue.
New Methodologies Developed and Approved
AM0086
Draft Baseline and Monitoring Methodology - Installation of Energy Free Water Purifier for Safe Drinking Water Application
UNILEVER
ACM0012
Baseline Methodology for GHG Emission Reductions for Waste Gas/Heat or Waste Pressure-based Energy System
TATA STEEL
AMS III-P
Recover and Utilization of Waste Gas in Refinery Facilities
INDIAN OIL CORPORATION
ACM0005
Consolidated Methodology for Increasing the Blend in Cement Production
BIRLA CORPORATION
ACM 0004
Waste Gas Heat for Power Generation
OSIL
First of it‘s Kind Projects Done
Starting 2020s, EILCS has been mitigating climate change by developing and implementing high impact climate projects, in vulnerable communities.
Sectors Covered
Renewable Power & Energy
Energy Efficiency
Waste Management
Steel
Cement
Water
Oil & Gas
Afforestation
Manufacturing
Power
Real Estate
Agriculture
Meet the Management Team
Erda Illumine translates literally to Illuminated Earth or a 'bright and healthier Earth' . And herein lies our philosophy of Collective Human Effort to Rebuild a Healthier Earth.
Etti Khanna
Founding Director
A powerhouse of resounding energy, Etti is perhaps one of the most vibrant Boss lady on the Climate block.
Gagandeep Arya
Founding Director
He liaises with the various stakeholders and partners, drives the strategic company growth and is responsible for the overall performance of the organization
Shruti Jain
Head of Portfoilio & Communications
With a background in Design and Marketing, Shruti’s growing sustainability sensibilities coincided beautifully with her journey into Erda Illumine.
From what began as an individual dream, EILCS is growing deeper roots. Our expanding team comprises of specialists from afforestation and agriculture space, development sector and renewable energy research space along with engineers, GIS specialists and carbon experts. In the already shrinking window of opportunity for addressing climate crisis, we believe that only through collective collaboration can we drive towards meaningful climate action.
Where We Work
Southeast Asia
Bangladesh
Nepal
Sri Lanka
India
Europe & Africa
Georgia
Ghana
Togo
Senegal
Benin
Ivory Coast
South Africa
Southeast Asia
Bangladesh
Nepal
Sri Lanka
India
Europe & Africa
Georgia
Ghana
Togo
Senegal
Benin
Ivory Coast
South Africa
