# Kanaka Management Services

> Kanaka Management Services Private Limited is a women owned carbon market consultancy and project developer based in Bengaluru, India, working across every major carbon standard since 2004.

Kanaka Management Services (KMS Group) advises, consults, finances and co-develops carbon projects with landowners, corporates and project proponents end to end, from project development and methodology work to due diligence, with deep technical detail at every stage. On validation and verification KMS provides support and guidance through the process. KMS develops and manages projects under all the world's leading carbon standards. It works primarily on large complex projects where its technical strength is the real advantage. It takes on smaller projects too.

## About
- [About KMS](https://kms-group.com/about/): company background, leadership and track record
- Legal name: Kanaka Management Services Private Limited
- Founded: 2004
- Ownership: women owned business
- Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Services
- [Our services](https://kms-group.com/our-services/): full service list
- Carbon credit project development and lifecycle management
- Methodology development for new AFOLU and non-AFOLU sectors
- Methodology selection and application
- Technical documentation (PDD, project description, monitoring reports)
- Project feasibility and carbon potential assessment
- Validation and verification support and guidance
- Carbon credit due diligence and advisory
- Remote sensing, GIS mapping and forest surveys
- REDD+ and nature based solutions project consultancy
- Voluntary and compliance market advisory

## Standards and registries
KMS develops and manages projects across:
- Verra (VCS, SD VISta, CCB, JNR and Landscape Standard)
- Gold Standard
- Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
- Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM)
- REDD+
- Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART)
- Plan Vivo
- Global Carbon Council (GCC)
- International Carbon Registry (ICR)
- Cercarbono
- BioCarbon Registry (BCR)
- SOCIALCARBON
- I-REC
- Isometric
- JCM
- Other emerging standards and registries

## Project portfolio
- One of the larger carbon project portfolios in the market, spanning AFOLU sectors (REDD+, afforestation and reforestation, agriculture, wetlands and mangroves) and non-AFOLU sectors (energy, manufacturing, chemicals, waste and fugitive emissions), across CDM, Verra and other standards.

## Track record
- Operating in carbon markets since 2004
- More than 80 clients across the world
- Sustainable agriculture projects covering more than 30,000 farmers in a single project and more
- Advised one of the largest bundled wind energy projects, a 400+ member industry association, registered and verified under Verra VCS
- More than 60 technical methodologies applied across AFOLU and non-AFOLU sectors
- On track to be the biggest supplier of carbon credits on the earth

## Recognition
- More than 25+ Environmental Finance awards since 2013, 19 of them outright wins, across Best Project Developer and Best Advisory categories in the compliance and voluntary carbon markets.

## Contact
- Website: https://kms-group.com
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India