Resources
Carbon-market resources & free tools
Practical, no-fluff resources to help you gauge your exposure and act with confidence — starting with two free tools and our latest guides.
CCTS Readiness Checklist
A practical checklist to see where you stand on compliance, credits and disclosure — and what to prepare before you engage. Enter your details and we’ll email it to you.
- CCTS applicability self-assessment
- Emission-intensity baseline data you’ll need
- CBAM exposure quick-check for exporters
- GHG inventory readiness (Scope 1/2/3)
- BRSR Core data-point starter list
- Common pitfalls that delay credit issuance
Prefer not to share details? Download the checklist directly (PDF)
Free Carbon Credit Eligibility Assessment
Not sure if you’re a CCTS obligated entity, exposed to CBAM, or sitting on an offset-project opportunity? In a free assessment we’ll review your situation and tell you — plainly — where you stand and what’s worth doing next.
- Confirm your CCTS / CBAM exposure
- Spot offset-project or credit potential
- Get a prioritised, no-obligation next step
Guides
Carbon-market guides
Deep-dive explainers on the rules and opportunities shaping Indian carbon markets.
What is the CCTS? India’s carbon market explained
A plain-language guide to obligations, targets and CCC trading.
CBAM guide for Indian exporters
Who’s covered, what to report, and how to cut your future certificate cost.
Carbon credits for farmers & FPOs
How aggregation, MRV and benefit-sharing turn good farming into income.
From the blog
Latest insights
12 September 2026 · 8 min read
Wildfire and Permanence: What Reversal Risk Means for Forestry Carbon Credits
A forest carbon credit is a promise that carbon stays stored. Fire is the fastest way to break that promise. How buffer pools, risk ratings and reversal rules actually work — and what a project developer in India should do about fire risk before verification, not after.
7 September 2026 · 9 min read
Rice Methane and Carbon Credits: How AWD and DSR Projects Work in India
Flooded paddy is one of India's largest methane sources — and one of the most creditable to fix. How Alternate Wetting and Drying and Direct Seeded Rice cut methane, what a carbon project actually requires, and how FPOs make smallholder rice projects viable.
2 September 2026 · 10 min read
Why Your Emission Factors May Be Wrong: Bottom-Up vs Top-Down GHG Accounting
Almost every corporate carbon number is an activity figure multiplied by an emission factor — and emission factors are assumptions, sometimes built on very thin evidence. Here is how to tell which of yours are load-bearing, and what to do about the weak ones.
At a glance
CCTS vs CBAM: how India’s carbon market and the EU border tax differ
In short: CCTS is India’s domestic compliance market that sets emission-intensity targets and trades CCCs; CBAM is the EU’s carbon price on specific imported goods. Many exporters are exposed to both.
| CCTS (India, domestic) | CBAM (EU, exports) | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | India’s compliance carbon market | EU carbon price on imported goods |
| Who’s affected | Notified energy-intensive entities in India | Exporters of steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen & electricity to the EU |
| Mechanism | Emission-intensity targets; trade Carbon Credit Certificates (CCCs) | Report embedded emissions; buy CBAM certificates |
| Status (as of June 2026) | Compliance live from FY2025–26; CCC trading expected ~Oct 2026 | Definitive phase began 1 January 2026 |
| Main exposure | Buy CCCs if you miss your target | Estimated 15–22% price pressure on covered exports |
| How we help | Baseline, compliance pathway and CCC strategy | Embedded-emissions calculation, reporting and decarbonisation |
Carbon glossary
Key carbon-market terms, defined
Plain-language definitions of the entities we reference across the site — useful before a consultation, and quotable for anyone researching the market.
- Carbon Credit Trading SchemeCCTS
- India’s national compliance carbon market, established under the Energy Conservation Act and administered by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. It sets greenhouse-gas emission-intensity targets for obligated entities, who trade Carbon Credit Certificates to comply.
- Carbon Credit CertificateCCC
- The tradable unit under the CCTS. An entity that beats its emission-intensity target earns CCCs it can sell; one that misses must buy CCCs to comply. Each certificate represents a defined quantity of avoided or reduced emissions.
- Carbon Border Adjustment MechanismCBAM
- The EU’s carbon tariff on imports of carbon-intensive goods — iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity. Importers must report embedded emissions and, in the definitive phase from 2026, buy CBAM certificates against them.
- Project Design DocumentPDD
- The core document for a carbon offset project. It defines the baseline, methodology, additionality case, monitoring plan and estimated credit yield, and is submitted to a registry for validation before credits can be issued.
- Monitoring, Reporting and VerificationMRV
- The process of measuring emissions or emission reductions, reporting them transparently, and having them independently verified. Robust MRV is what makes a carbon credit or compliance claim credible and audit-proof.
- Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
- The three categories of the GHG Protocol. Scope 1 is direct emissions from owned sources; Scope 2 is indirect emissions from purchased energy; Scope 3 is all other value-chain emissions (suppliers, transport, product use) — usually the largest share.
- Business Responsibility and Sustainability ReportingBRSR
- SEBI’s mandatory ESG disclosure framework for India’s largest listed companies. A subset of indicators — BRSR Core — requires reasonable assurance, and large companies must also report value-chain ESG data.
- Additionality
- The principle that a carbon project must deliver emission reductions that would not have happened anyway. Without additionality, a credit does not represent a real climate benefit and will not withstand registry or buyer scrutiny.
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