Earth5R

Verified Climate Action · Global Scale · UNESCO Recognition

India's
Largest
Sustainability
Platform

India's largest environmental action organisation and enterprise ESG platform — delivering CSR projects, BRSR compliance, and verified climate action. On-ground operations across India, with field teams in 65+ countries.

2.5M Community Network
65+ Countries Active
1.3M Tons CO₂ Offset
65
  • Partnered with the United Nations
  • Acknowledged by UNESCO
  • Google Award Winner
  • Paris Peace Forum — Project Leader
  • Featured by MIT, NYU & National Geographic
Commercially Auditable · Field-Verified · Enterprise-Grade

A Decade of
Measurable Action

Every number is field-verified and commercially auditable. This is the scale of Earth5R's deployment network.
2.5M Community NetworkAcross India & the Global South
12.2M Hours of Field OperationsDocumented & verified
1.3M Tons CO₂ OffsetCarbon reduction impact
18M Plastic Items RecoveredCollected, segregated & profiled
65+ CountriesGlobal operations network
1,200+ HectaresUrban plantation
89K EnvironmentalistsLeading community programs
124K Impact StoriesDocumented & verified
Saurabh Gupta with President Emmanuel Macron, Paris
Presidential Recognition

Young Leader
India–France
Award

Awarded by President Emmanuel Macron

Earth5R Founder Saurabh Gupta was personally recognised by the French President for environmental innovation at global scale — one of only a handful of leaders selected from across the world for this distinction.

Awarded by President Emmanuel Macron
Country France-India
Category Environment
Paris Peace Forum — Project Leader Environmental Sector · Presented to 65 heads of state
About Earth5R
A sustainability technology company — delivering verified ESG intelligence and climate deployment at enterprise scale.
Saurabh Gupta Founder & CEO, Earth5R — Young Leader Award, President Macron

Over a decade, Earth5R has built a full-stack sustainability technology platform — serving enterprises, governments, and institutions across the Global South with AI-driven ESG intelligence, verified impact data, and end-to-end climate deployment.

Global Reach, Local Execution
65-country deployment network with deep field capacity across waste, water, air, energy and agriculture — built for enterprise partners.
AI-Powered ESG Intelligence
Our Forensic Sustainability OS delivers ESG compliance verification, supply chain risk intelligence, and real-time reporting for enterprise clients.
Verified, Not Claimed
Proprietary data infrastructure, independent field verification. Every outcome commercially auditable.
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How We Work
The Challenge.
The Model.
01
The Challenge

High-Need Regions Face Rising Climate Pressure

Waste Water Air Energy Agriculture
Earth5R field operations

Enterprises and governments in the Global South face mounting ESG pressure with no reliable infrastructure to respond at scale. Existing solutions are too slow, too costly, and unverifiable — creating compliance risk and missed opportunity.

02
The Model

Disciplined Execution Built for Scale

  • 01Deploy proven climate technologies adapted for high-need regional markets
  • 02Manage end-to-end delivery: field operations, technology stack, and client reporting
  • 03Verify and audit all outcomes through Earth5R's proprietary data infrastructure
  • 04Generate measurable ROI for enterprise clients — lower risk, higher ESG compliance confidence
Operations on the Ground
The Field Infrastructure Behind Every Data Point.
Earth5R river cleanup operations
River RestorationVolunteer-led cleanup drive — field-verified & geo-tagged
Earth5R waste management operations
Waste ManagementCircular economy at source
Earth5R sustainability consulting
Project DeploymentUN river restoration operations
Earth5R recycling operations
Recycling OpsField-level material recovery
Earth5R sustainable agriculture
Agriculture1.3M farmers connected
Earth5R Punjab health-environment study
Organic FarmingTransition at scale
Mula-Mutha river restoration project
River RevivalMula-Mutha restoration — verified sustainability at watershed scale
89,000+Field Operators
65Countries
2.5MCommunity Members
100%Field-Verified
The Structural Opportunity
SECTION 01 — DIAGNOSIS

The Next Era of
Sustainability Runs on
Verified Infrastructure.

Sustainability is a systems challenge — and systems challenges require verified infrastructure. When ground-truth data exists at scale, enterprises comply, investors deploy, and governments enforce. Earth5R built this from the ground up.

We think like designers, design like architects, and operate like utilities.

From Standalone Solutions to Connected Systems GAP ANALYSIS · 4 STAGES
GAP 01
Fragmented Solutions
Thousands of valuable initiatives — each solving one problem in one place. The opportunity is in connecting them.
GAP 02
Unverified Outcomes
Most impact data remains self-reported. Audit-grade evidence transforms sustainability from aspiration to action.
GAP 03
Waiting Capital
Trillions in climate finance ready to deploy. Institutional investors need the infrastructure to verify outcomes.
GAP 04
The Compounding Gap
Every year without connected infrastructure, the distance between commitment and action widens. The opportunity to close it is now.
The Global South — home to 85% of the world's climate vulnerability — needs verified sustainability infrastructure that connects solutions, verifies outcomes, and unlocks capital at planetary scale. Earth5R built exactly this.
Earth5R — The Infrastructure Layer

From Standalone Solutions
to a Connected
Operating System.

Earth5R is the verified sustainability infrastructure that connects field operations, data verification, and enterprise compliance into one system. 2.4 billion data points. 89,000 field operators. Global deployment.

LAYER 01
Field-Verified Collection
89,000+ operators collecting geo-tagged data across waste, water, air, energy, and agriculture — daily, at global scale.
LAYER 02
Forensic Verification
Multi-layer verification: geo-fencing, timestamp validation, AI anomaly detection, and human audit confirmation.
LAYER 03
Intelligence Platform
AI transforms field data into ESG dashboards, compliance packages, and investor-grade impact reports — real time.
LAYER 04
Systemic Outcomes
Enterprises comply, investors deploy, governments enforce, communities earn — all through one connected system.
The Evolution COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
First Generation
  • Individual initiatives — valuable but isolated
  • Self-reported impact, limited commercial use
  • Grant-funded, difficult to sustain independently
  • Single geography, hard to replicate
  • Project-based, outcomes end when funding ends
TO
Systems Approach
  • + Connected infrastructure — solutions compound
  • + Field-verified, geo-tagged, audit-grade evidence
  • + Enterprise revenue model, commercially self-sustaining
  • + Global deployment, proven replication
  • + Platform-based, outcomes persist and scale
Compliance EnabledEnterprises across 15+ sectors achieve BRSR, CSRD, and GRI compliance through verified field data.
Capital MobilisedAudit-grade evidence trails enable institutional capital to flow into verified sustainability outcomes.
Communities Empowered2.5M citizens and 1.3M farmers earning livelihoods while generating verified sustainability data.
Theory of Change
E5R–TOC–001

If You Can Verify It,
You Can Scale It.

Most sustainability efforts stall because outcomes can't be independently verified. Earth5R solves the verification bottleneck first — then uses that verified data to unlock everything else: compliance, capital, community livelihoods, and systemic change.

The Causal Chain INPUT → IMPACT PATHWAY
INPUT
Field Operators
89,000+ trained community operators deployed across waste, water, air, energy, and agriculture domains.
89K+ operators
ACTIVITY
Verified Data Collection
Geo-tagged, timestamp-validated, AI-audited field data — collected daily at global scale. Every data point forensically verified.
2.4B data points
OUTPUT
Audit-Grade Evidence
Multi-layer verification transforms raw field data into compliance-ready, investor-grade evidence packages.
BRSR · CSRD · GRI
OUTCOME
Capital Unlocked
Verified evidence enables enterprises to comply, investors to deploy, and governments to enforce — unlocking institutional capital flows.
15+ sectors
IMPACT
Systemic Change
Communities earn livelihoods while generating data. Capital funds more infrastructure. The system compounds — permanently.
2.5M citizens
The critical insight: Every stage feeds the next. More operators produce more data. More data creates better verification. Better verification unlocks more capital. More capital funds more operators. This isn't a pipeline — it's a self-reinforcing system.
The Compounding Engine

Why It Gets Better
As It Gets Bigger.

Traditional sustainability scales linearly — double the budget, double the impact. Earth5R scales exponentially. Each new data point, operator, and enterprise client improves the system for everyone already on it. This is the network effect applied to verified sustainability.

Flywheel
Earth5R
More Operators
Deploy into new geographies
More Data
Higher density, richer signals
Smarter AI
Models improve with volume
Better Verification
Higher trust, lower fraud
More Capital
Investors & enterprises enter
Wider Reach
New sectors, new regions
Unit Economics

Each cycle of the flywheel reduces the marginal cost of verification while increasing the value of each data point. This is why Earth5R's model becomes more commercially viable — not less — as it scales.

COST CURVE
Verification cost per data point decreases as AI models train on larger datasets. Human audit focuses only on anomalies.
VALUE CURVE
Data value per point increases as cross-referencing density grows. More operators = richer environmental intelligence.
NETWORK EFFECT
Each new enterprise client funds operators who generate data that serves all clients. The shared infrastructure model means cost-per-client drops continuously.
METRIC 01
↓ 73%
Marginal Cost Reduction
Cost per verified data point has decreased 73% since 2019 as AI verification accuracy scales with dataset size.
METRIC 02
3.8×
Revenue per Operator
Each field operator now generates 3.8× the enterprise value through multi-client data sharing and cross-sector intelligence.
METRIC 03
18 mo.
New Market Payback
New geography deployments reach break-even within 18 months as operator networks self-sustain through community earnings.
This is the fundamental difference. Grant-funded sustainability requires more money to do more good. Earth5R's infrastructure model generates increasing returns — every dollar invested creates more impact than the last, because the system's intelligence compounds with every data point collected.
Revenue Architecture HOW MONEY FLOWS
STREAM 01
SaaS-X Platform
Subscription-based ESG intelligence platform. Enterprises pay for real-time dashboards, compliance packages, and investor-grade reporting.
RECURRING · ARR
STREAM 02
CSR Project Delivery
End-to-end programme management for corporate sustainability commitments. Design, execute, verify, and report — from field to boardroom.
PROJECT · MARGIN
STREAM 03
Verified Carbon & Impact Credits
Forensically verified impact data enables high-integrity carbon and environmental credits — priced at premium due to audit-grade evidence trails.
ASSET · PREMIUM
STREAM 04
Government & Institutional Contracts
National and state-level sustainability compliance infrastructure. Data backbone for BRSR enforcement, EPR monitoring, and SDG tracking.
INSTITUTIONAL · SCALE
All four revenue streams share the same infrastructure. The same field operators, the same data pipeline, the same verification engine. This means every new client across any stream reduces cost and increases intelligence for clients in all other streams. Revenue diversification and unit economics improve simultaneously.
Competitive Moat DEFENSIBILITY ARCHITECTURE
MOAT 01
Data Moat
2.4 billion+ geo-tagged, timestamp-verified environmental data points. This dataset cannot be reverse-engineered or replicated — it was built over a decade of continuous field collection.
10+ years of accumulation · Irreplicable at any cost
MOAT 02
Operator Network
89,000+ trained, embedded community operators across multiple countries. Each operator is locally trusted, locally recruited, and locally incentivised — a distribution network that no technology startup can build from scratch.
Community-embedded · Self-sustaining economics
MOAT 03
Verification IP
Proprietary forensic verification engine — multi-layer AI validation, geo-fence cross-referencing, anomaly detection, and human audit escalation. Built from 2.4 billion labelled data points no competitor possesses.
AI trained on proprietary dataset · Forensic-grade output
MOAT 04
Regulatory Position
Recognised by UNESCO, Google, and the French Government. Embedded in national BRSR compliance workflows. Regulatory positioning creates switching costs that deepen over time as compliance dependencies grow.
UNESCO · Google · President Macron Award · BRSR integration
SYNTHESIS
Theory of Change, flywheel economics, revenue architecture, and competitive moat are not four separate stories. They are one interconnected system: the Theory of Change creates the flywheel. The flywheel drives the unit economics. The unit economics fund the business model. And the business model — sustained over a decade — builds the moat. This is why Earth5R is not a project. It's infrastructure.
DATA
Sustainability Intelligence Platform

The World's
Largest
Sustainability
Intelligence

Earth5R operates the world's largest proprietary sustainability intelligence system — built on billions of real-time, on-ground data points collected across 65 countries. Collected on the ground. Verified in the field. Geo-tagged, commercially auditable, and built for regulatory scrutiny — the definitive sustainability dataset for enterprises and consulting firms.

0BILLION+
Proprietary On-Ground Data Points

Every data point originates from field-verified operations — waste audits, water quality readings, air monitoring stations, agricultural surveys, biodiversity indices, and circular economy tracking across 65+ countries. Ground truth at planetary scale.

4
Domains
0M+Waste & CircularityItem-level profiling, material composition, recovery rates, EPR compliance mapping across 18M+ items
0M+Water Quality & HydrologyRiver systems, groundwater, industrial discharge — real-time field sensors and manual surveys
0M+Agricultural & Land-UseSoil health, crop transitions, organic certification readiness, farmer-level traceability across 1.3M farmers
0M+Air, Energy & CarbonAmbient air quality, emission profiles, energy baselines, carbon offset verification
Intelligence Pipeline — From Field to Boardroom
Field Collection
89K+ operators
65 countries
Verification Engine
Geo-tagged
Timestamped
AI Processing
Pattern analysis
Risk scoring
Enterprise Delivery
API · Dashboard
Audit packages
For Enterprises
Forensic ESG ComplianceReal-time compliance dashboards built on verified field data. Meets BRSR, CSRD, EU Taxonomy, and GRI requirements with audit-grade evidence trails.
Supply Chain Risk IntelligenceMap sustainability risk across your entire value chain with ground-verified data from 65+ countries — from raw material origin to last-mile delivery.
Continuous Impact ReportingLive data feeds for board-level ESG reporting, investor disclosures, and regulatory filings — every metric traceable to a verified field event.
For Consulting Firms
White-Label Data InfrastructureLicense Earth5R's proprietary sustainability dataset for your client engagements — verified ground-truth data no competitor can replicate independently.
Global South Field DeploymentTurn-key execution across 65 countries — when your client needs boots on the ground for ESG audits, baseline studies, or impact verification, we deliver.
Audit-Ready DeliverablesPre-formatted intelligence packages for Big 4 audit trails, regulatory submissions, and investment due diligence — full chain-of-custody documentation.
Field-Verified at SourceEvery data point traces to a field event with geo-tag, timestamp, and verifier identity. Full chain of custody from collection to reporting.
Enterprise-Grade APIIntegrate Earth5R intelligence into your existing ESG stack, reporting tools, or client dashboards via secure API access.
Continuously UpdatedLive data collection from 89,000+ field operators across 65 countries — refreshed daily with new verified observations.
Global Sustainability Leadership
Voices That
Matter
What the world's foremost sustainability leaders say about Earth5R's work and impact.
Partnerships & Affiliations
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ESG Coverage · 15+ Sectors

Every Industry.
One Platform.

Enterprise ESG intelligence with commercially verified outcomes — tailored to each industry's sustainability challenges — from quick commerce to deep mining.

ESG & CSR Case Study Book
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ESG & CSR Case Study Book
15+ industries. 65 countries. Verified outcomes ready for your ESG compliance team.
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14+Industry Sectors
65+Countries Covered
2.4BData Points
100%Field-Verified
Showcase Projects

CSR & ESG
in Action

05
01
Plastic Recycling & Beach Cleanup Program
Lufthansa Help Alliance
Plastic Recycling & Beach Cleanup Program
Delivered a full-scale plastic recovery operation in Mumbai for Lufthansa — combining field execution, data profiling, and verified impact reporting for corporate ESG compliance.
02
Social Entrepreneurship Internship Program
NYU Abu Dhabi
Social Entrepreneurship Internship Program
Designed and delivered a structured sustainability internship curriculum for NYU Abu Dhabi — building enterprise-ready environmental problem-solvers for global institutions.
03
Sustainable School Project
Swiss International Airlines
Sustainable School Project
Deployed a circular economy school model in partnership with Swiss Airlines — combining resource delivery, sustainability curriculum, and measurable community impact.
04
Ganges River Plastic Pollution Consultation
National Geographic
Ganges River Plastic Pollution Consultation
Earth5R's proprietary river data and field intelligence were presented at a National Geographic roundtable — informing national-level plastic pollution policy for the Ganges.
05
Project Leader — Environmental Sector
Paris Peace Forum
Project Leader — Environmental Sector
Earth5R was selected as Project Leader at the inaugural Paris Peace Forum — presenting verified sustainability solutions to 65 heads of state as a globally recognised platform.
TED
On the Global Stage
Igniting Ideas
at TEDx
Saurabh Gupta has taken Earth5R's vision to two of the world's most prestigious TEDx stages.
TEDx@Paris

How One Man's 50,000km Cycle Changed the Way We Think About Sustainability

Saurabh Gupta shares how cycling through Asia, Africa and Europe — witnessing environmental destruction first-hand — led to the founding of Earth5R and a new model for enterprise-scale sustainability.

TEDx@Paris · Earth5R Founder
TEDx@Mumbai

Building the Operating System for Climate Action at Scale

From the streets of Mumbai to 65 countries — Saurabh Gupta presents Earth5R's model for turning verified environmental data into a commercially deployable sustainability platform for the Global South.

TEDx@Mumbai · Earth5R Founder
Featured In
PressGoogle BlogForbes IndiaHindustan TimesEconomic TimesMumbai MirrorNDTV ProfitTimes of IndiaIndia TodayMint
The Founder

Saurabh
GuptaFounder & CEO, Earth5R

He left a corporate career, got on a bicycle, and spent two years cycling 50,000 kilometres through Asia, Africa, and Europe — before building a technology platform that now operates across 65 countries.

Saurabh Gupta — Founder & CEO, Earth5R
The Journey · Key Milestones
2012
Left Corporate India
Quit Café Coffee Day to cycle the globe — a decision that would redefine his life and purpose.
2012–14
50,000km Across 3 Continents
Asia, Africa, Europe. Witnessed environmental destruction and systemic apathy that could not be unseen.
2014
Earth5R Founded
Built as a technology company designed to make sustainability commercially deployable at scale.
2014–Now
From Mumbai to 65 Countries
UN partner, UNESCO recognition, President Macron Award, Paris Peace Forum Project Leader.
He didn't start a movement.
He built a platform.

What Saurabh built after that 50,000km journey was a data and technology platform — designed from day one to be commercially deployable at enterprise scale.

Earth5R's core is a Forensic Sustainability Operating System that collects, verifies, and reports on environmental outcomes across 65 countries — feeding enterprise ESG compliance, circular economy risk intelligence, and real-time community data into one system.

Today that system connects 2.5 million citizens, 1.3 million farmers, and enterprise clients across 15+ industries — generating outcomes that are independently auditable, commercially verifiable, and recognised by the UN, UNESCO, Google, and President Macron.

50Kkm
The Journey That Started It AllAsia · Africa · Europe · 2 years · 3 continents · 1 mission
Saurabh Gupta
Founder & CEO · Earth5R
  • Young Leader AwardAwarded by President Emmanuel Macron, France
  • PPF
    Paris Peace ForumProject Leader, Environmental Sector — 65 heads of state
  • TEDx
    TEDx SpeakerParis & !important; Mumbai — on sustainability at enterprise scale
  • UN
    UN PartnerEarth5R formally partnered with the United Nations
  • G
    Google Award WinnerRecognised for innovation in sustainability technology
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