COMPLIANCE · INDIA
Carbon compliance
for Indian industry
India’s carbon rules have moved from voluntary reporting to obligations with legal weight.
Industrial plants now carry targets set individually rather than by sector, filings that
must be signed off by an accredited third party, and questions from export customers that
reach back into plant data. We build the measurement base all of it rests on —
audited on site and reconciled, so each filing is ready before the verifier arrives.
ASSESS
BEE-certified auditors establish each
row from measurements on site and
reconcile the figures against one another.
BEE-certified auditors establish each
row from measurements on site and
reconcile the figures against one another.
OPTIMIZE
Where intensity is made in the process,
the cost of a tonne of abatement,
and the trade-off against buying certificates.
Where intensity is made in the process,
the cost of a tonne of abatement,
and the trade-off against buying certificates.
COMPLY
Monitoring plan, MRV submission, BRSR
datapoints and embedded-emissions
figures, drawn from that one record.
Monitoring plan, MRV submission, BRSR
datapoints and embedded-emissions
figures, drawn from that one record.
HOW WE WORK ON THIS
We build the record,
then file from it
Ventrovia works the measurement layer first, because everything above it —
the filing, the verification, the trade — is only as good as the number underneath.
Measure it properly
BEE-certified auditors on site. Fuel, purchased power, process emissions and production reconciled into a plant-level baseline that survives a verifier's questions.
File from one source
Monitoring plan, verified GHG report, BRSR datapoints and CBAM figures drawn from the same record — so the numbers agree with each other across every filing.
Move the number
Where intensity is actually made in your process, what a tonne of abatement costs you, and whether it's cheaper to reduce or to buy certificates.
— The regimes, and where each one stands
In force now
Carrying legal weight today for covered plants.
3 REGIMES
Carbon Credit Trading Scheme
CCTS · Notified sectors · BEE-administered
India's compliance carbon market. Each covered plant gets a greenhouse-gas emission-intensity target per unit of output — beat it and earn tradable certificates, miss it and buy them.
WHO
Obligated plants across the notified sectors — aluminium, cement, chlor-alkali, pulp & paper, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, textiles, iron & steel and fertiliser. Targets are plant-specific: two plants in the same sector can carry different numbers.
WHEN
Baseline FY2023–24. Compliance years FY2025–26 and FY2026–27. The first verified emissions filing fell due 31 July 2026; the FY2026–27 cycle is now the live one.
THE FILING
MRV submission against an approved monitoring plan, third-party verified by a BEE-accredited agency.
In practice. The pace is set by verification capacity. Accredited agencies are thin on the ground relative to the number of obligated plants, and reconciliation needs to be complete before a verifier begins.
CBAM — EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Export exposure · your buyer's cost, your plant's data
An EU carbon price on the embedded emissions of imported goods — steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser. It prices the carbon in what you ship to Europe.
WHO
Any Indian producer exporting covered goods to the EU. Your buyer’s CBAM cost is set by your plant’s embedded emissions.
WHEN
Transitional reporting since October 2023; the definitive phase, with financial obligations, began 1 January 2026.
WHAT IT NEEDS
Emissions allocated to the tonne of product shipped, which is a narrower boundary than the plant-level intensity figure a CCTS filing reports.
In practice. Where plant-level figures cannot be evidenced, default values apply, and the defaults sit above what a well-run plant would report. That difference is charged to the buyer, and returns in the next price negotiation.
BRSR & BRSR Core
SEBI · listed entity level · annual
SEBI's mandatory Business Responsibility & Sustainability Report, with an assured subset covering quantified metrics including Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
WHO
India’s largest listed companies by market capitalisation, with value-chain disclosure reaching significant suppliers on a comply-or-explain basis.
THE BAR
BRSR Core carries reasonable assurance — the numbers have to hold under third-party scrutiny.
In practice. Published BRSR figures frequently fail to reconcile within a single filing — intensity ratios that do not divide, totals that do not carry between years. Much of the report sits outside the assurance perimeter.
In the window
Where the decisions being made now determine tomorrow’s liability.
1 REGIMES
Iron & steel targets under CCTS
Revised draft · comment window open
The targets that bring iron & steel formally into the carbon market — plant-specific, for integrated plants, EAF and induction furnaces, sponge iron and ferro-alloy units.
STATUS
Revised draft notification issued 26 June 2026, published 2 July, with a 60-day objection window.
Draft targets are visible before they lock. This is the point at which a proposed number can still be checked against your own measured baseline, and objected to if it rests on data you cannot reconcile. Once final, the number is the liability.
OUR PART
Baseline reconstruction against the draft target, and the evidence pack behind an objection.
Upcoming
Direction is set. The lead time is the preparation window.
2 REGIMES
Certificate trading
Secondary market · power exchanges · CERC oversight
The market where surplus plants sell certificates and deficit plants buy them, traded through India's power exchanges under CERC oversight.
WHAT SHIFTS
Your intensity performance stops being a filing and becomes a cash position — a cost if short, an asset if long.
OUR PART
Position modelling: projected surplus or deficit against target, and abatement cost per tonne set against the expected certificate price.
Green Steel Taxonomy
Ministry of Steel · product level
A definition of green steel by CO₂ intensity per tonne of crude steel, supporting the trajectory toward roughly 2.2 tCO₂/tcs by 2030.
WHY IT MATTERS
It sets the standard your product is measured against for green-steel claims, procurement preference and premium positioning — built on the same measurement as CCTS.
OUR PART
Product-level intensity from the same plant record, so a claim can be substantiated rather than asserted.
Also on our radar
Tracked, not yet an obligation on an industrial plant.
RBI climate-risk disclosure for regulated entities and the India Climate Finance Taxonomy are both still in draft. Both shape how emissions data will feed lending and disclosure. Neither binds a plant today. We track both.
CHECK YOUR STATUS
Are you a CCTS obligated entity?
Look your plant up against the notified and draft sector lists — and see exactly what falls due, when.
GO DEEPER
Iron & Steel
How the draft targets, route choices and the carbon-vs-energy gap play out for steel specifically.
