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Everything Indian businesses need to know: CCTS, PAT Scheme, BRSR, and EU CBAM impact. Obligations and where each one comes from, in one place.
Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS)
Notified 2023 · BEE administered · Mandatory for obligated entities
Plants in energy-intensive sectors drawn from the PAT scheme that are named in a Gazette notification setting their greenhouse gas emission intensity (GEI) targets. Targets are notified sector by sector — check the latest notification for your sector.
Each obligated entity has a GEI target (tCO₂e per unit of product) for each year of the target period. Entities that beat it are issued Carbon Credit Certificates (CCCs); entities that miss it surrender CCCs to cover the shortfall.
On power exchanges regulated by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). MintCarb shows a CCC price only when one has been published, with its source and date.
Set by the Energy Conservation Act, 2001 (as amended by the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022) and the target notification for your sector. Read the current texts for the amounts — MintCarb does not quote them.
Monitoring, verification and submission timelines for each compliance year are set in BEE's detailed procedure for the compliance mechanism. The compliance year follows India's financial year (April–March).
Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, 2023 — Ministry of Power, S.O. 2825(E), 28 June 2023; Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022; sector GEI target notifications in the Gazette of India.
PAT Scheme (Perform Achieve & Trade)
Active · BEE administered · Designated Consumers
PAT is India's flagship energy efficiency program for energy-intensive industries. Units that over-achieve their energy savings targets earn Energy Saving Certificates (ESCerts) which are traded on the power exchanges.
The CCTS notification provides for PAT Designated Consumers to move into the CCTS compliance mechanism. Facilities in PAT should follow BEE notices on how and when their sector transitions.
BRSR (Business Responsibility & Sustainability Reporting)
Mandatory · SEBI · Top 1,000 listed entities by market capitalisation
BRSR is SEBI's disclosure framework, replacing the earlier Business Responsibility Report. It is mandatory for the top 1,000 listed entities by market capitalisation from FY 2022-23 and is published as part of the annual report. BRSR Core — key indicators with reasonable assurance — is being phased in from the largest companies.
Principle 6 covers energy, Scope 1 and 2 emissions, water, air emissions, waste and biodiversity.
Source: SEBI circular SEBI/HO/CFD/CMD-2/P/CIR/2021/562, 10 May 2021; SEBI circular on BRSR Core, 12 July 2023, as amended.
EU CBAM Impact on Indian Exporters
Definitive period from 2026 · Iron & steel · Cement · Aluminium · Fertilisers
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism puts a carbon price on imports into the EU of iron and steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity. It is paid by the EU importer, who needs verified embedded-emission data from Indian producers. The definitive period began on 1 January 2026; the first annual declaration, covering 2026 imports, is made in 2027. Source: Regulation (EU) 2023/956, as amended.
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