KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS to a carbon auditor or a funding agency, which, as the economics chapter notes, is precisely what makes the audited register saleable and the program fundable. From pilot to state-wide PHASE SC O PE WH A T I T P ROV E S Pilot One or two corridors in a willing local body That the verified action works and citizens engage Scale-up A district, with the partner department leading That the loop holds beyond the early-adopter corridor State-wide Rolled into the partner’s standing operations That the program is durable infrastructure, not a campaign Table 13.3; Green Kerala: a three-phase rollout, each phase gated on the last. The economics, configured Verification volume is low and episodic, a registration image and one or two follow-ups per tree, so inference cost is minimal. As with Water Secure, the modest cost driver is the human audit of larger groves, not compute. Nurseries and garden suppliers are natural Reward Partners, and corporates with carbon and ESG commitments are unusually motivated patrons, because a survival-audited grove is worth far more to their reporting than an unverified planting count. 195