KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS The verified action A household, school, or group plants and registers a native tree or restores a green patch, with a geolocated planting image. The action earns provisional points; verified survival at six and twelve months, confirmed by re-imaging the same geotagged location and converts them to full points. Persistence is the rewarded behaviour, not the planting event. WHAT THE AI CONFIRMS Species and planting from the registration image; geolocation to a registered plot. Survival at the follow-up windows, by re-imaging the same geotagged location. Plausible planting density per plot, to prevent fictitious mass-planting claims. Kerala, a morning in 2028 A school in Wayanad checks the survival rate of last year’s avenue planting. Ninety of a hundred saplings made it through the dry season, and the verified-survival score. Not the planting count, puts them top of the district. A residents’ association photographs the shade canopy on a street they planted three 190