The Carbon Trilogy
Three books exploring one interconnected carbon economy
The Carbon Trilogy is an engaging and easy-to-read three-book series authored by Manoj Kumar Rawat on carbon credits, carbon markets and climate finance — taking readers from basic understanding to India’s and the world’s emerging carbon economy.
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THE CARBON HANDSHAKE
The Golden Suture
Connecting 146 Million Smallholders to India's Carbon Economy
BOOKS
THE CARBON HANDSHAKE
The Golden Suture
The Practitioner's Guide to India's Carbon Economy
This is not another book about climate change. It is a practitioner’s guide to the delivery chain of the carbon economy: how verified data becomes credit, how credit supports transition, and how transition becomes trusted income.
The Carbon Handshake explains what is now happening at the intersection of carbon markets, rural finance, agriculture, digital verification, aggregation, blended finance and India’s emerging carbon economy.
Written as an engaging and readable professional guide, it asks a simple question: how does climate value become measurable, financeable, verifiable, tradable and useful in the real economy?
The book is built around four practitioner frameworks:
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The Golden Suture connects institutions, policy, finance, data and markets.
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The Digital Spine explains digital MRV and verification architecture.
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The 1:10 Multiplier frames blended finance and catalytic capital.
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The 80:20 Rule protects farmer value in carbon-market design.
15 chapters. 32 annexure tables. A comprehensive practitioner’s guide for readers who want to understand how carbon value moves from policy intent to verified action, financeable projects, trusted markets, institutional coordination and real economic transition.
First Edition · May 2026
ISBN (Print): 978-93-5655-401-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-93-5717-312-4
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CARBON CREDIT
A BEGINNER'S GUIDE
Demystifying the Carbon Economy
Carbon credits are now part of business, finance, policy, agriculture and climate action. Yet the subject remains confusing for most readers — technical, jargon-heavy and hard to navigate. This book helps readers enter that world with clarity and confidence.
Carbon Credit: A Beginner’s Guide is a clear first guide to the carbon economy: how emissions become measurable, how projects create credits, how credits are verified, traded and retired, and why integrity matters.
The book explains carbon credits, carbon markets, MRV, ESG, India’s carbon ecosystem and climate opportunities in simple, structured and readable language.
Written as an engaging and beginner-friendly guide, it asks a simple question: how does a climate-positive activity become a credible carbon credit that can be measured, verified, traded and trusted in the real economy?
The book takes the reader through the foundations of the carbon market:
India’s carbon-market opportunity is explained with practical examples.
18 chapters. Glossary, formulae, bibliography and quick-reference material.
First Edition · August 2025
ISBN (Print): 978-93-343-6282-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-93-343-7713-2
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THE CARBON ECONOMY SIMPLIFIED
The Essential Guide and Reference to Markets, Finance, Policy and Climate Action
Carbon has moved far beyond climate conferences. It now sits inside cost of capital, export invoices, ESG disclosures, climate law, board decisions, bank portfolios, project finance, business strategy and career choices.
The Carbon Economy Simplified explains this full system in clear, practical language. It is designed as a professional reference that reads like a guided journey, building the carbon economy step by step: carbon science, emissions accounting, carbon credits, standards, registries, climate finance, ESG disclosure, carbon markets, policy, law, agriculture, digital MRV, sectoral transition and climate-linked careers.
For a banker, carbon is becoming a risk and finance question.
For an exporter, it is a competitiveness question.
For an ESG professional, it is a disclosure question.
For a policymaker, it is a market-design question.
For a student or young professional, it is a career question.
The book connects the full arc: science to accounting, accounting to markets, markets to finance, finance to policy, policy to business strategy, and finally to the practical decisions that professionals must make.
27 concise chapters. 5 parts. 8 appendices. Glossary. Formulae. A professional reference for readers who want to understand the carbon economy as a business.
First Edition: Coming Soon
ISBN (Print): 978-93-5891-825-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-93-5895-283-4
About the Author
Manoj Kumar Rawat is a well-known and respected banking and development finance professional with over three decades of experience and leadership roles across rural banking, agriculture finance, MSME finance and climate-aligned development. His career spans ISRO, NABARD, Fullerton India, RBL Bank, NBFC leadership and IFAD-linked development finance assignments. He is founder of Rural Rethink Advisory LLP.
Manoj Kumar Rawat is a writer, practitioner and author of The Carbon Trilogy, working at the intersection of agriculture, rural finance, climate finance and the carbon economy.
