Carbon Credit Trading Scheme
The Carbon Credit Trading Scheme is India’s national framework for trading Carbon Credit Certificates (CCCs), notified by the Ministry of Power on 28 June 2023 under the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act 2022. It operates through two mechanisms: a compliance mechanism that issues and trades certificates against greenhouse gas emission-intensity targets for obligated entities in energy-intensive […]
Carbon Credit Registration Process
Registering carbon credits is how a project that cuts emissions turns that reduction into a credit it can sell. The path runs through six steps: writing a Project Design Document (PDD), having it checked by an independent agency, registering it with a registry, monitoring the project, verifying the actual reductions, and finally having the credits […]
Aluminium Recycling in the Automotive Industry
Aluminium recycling in the automotive industry recovers aluminium from end-of-life vehicles and production scrap, processes it through shredding, alloy sorting, and re-melting, and returns it as secondary aluminium feedstock for new vehicle components. According to the International Aluminium Institute secondary aluminium production requires approximately 5 percent of the energy used to produce primary aluminium from […]
What Is Carbon Footprint?
Every activity leaves behind a measurable emission trail. That trail is called a carbon footprint. It captures the total greenhouse gas emissions generated across energy use, transportation, industrial processes, and consumption patterns. Measured in CO₂e, it converts different gases into a single comparable unit using global warming potential. This standardization allows businesses and governments to […]
EV Battery Recycling in India
EV battery recycling in India involves recovering critical materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel from used battery packs to reduce both environmental impact and import dependency. India’s EV adoption is accelerating across vehicle segments, generating a growing volume of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries that pose serious risks if disposed of through informal channels. With mandatory […]
What Are EPR Targets?
Extended Producer Responsibility is a policy mechanism that shifts part of the waste management burden from municipalities to producers. Under this framework, companies that manufacture, import, or sell regulated products must take responsibility for the waste generated from those products after use. One of the central elements of this system is the concept of EPR […]
Green Mobility in India
Green mobility in India refers to the shift from fossil fuel-powered transportation to cleaner, lower-emission alternatives, primarily electric vehicles, biofuels, and green hydrogen. The strategy is driven by three converging pressures. Road transport contributes over 13 percent of India’s greenhouse gas emissions, urban air quality is deteriorating in major cities, and import dependence on crude […]
Automotive Waste Management in India
Automotive waste management in India is the system that governs what happens to a vehicle and its hazardous contents once it stops being roadworthy. It covers fluid drainage, dismantling, material recovery, and the documentation that tracks every step. The waste itself ranges from used motor oil and refrigerants to lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion cells, catalytic converter […]
Remanufacturing vs Recycling in India
Remanufacturing and recycling are both circular economy processes, but they sit at different rungs of the value hierarchy. Remanufacturing rebuilds a used component back to original equipment specifications and returns it to service as a working part. Recycling breaks the component or vehicle down to base materials that re-enter manufacturing as feedstock. The first preserves […]
Carbon Footprint of a Car in India
A typical passenger car in India emits 0.13 to 0.20 kg of CO2 per kilometre, depending on fuel type, engine size, and driving conditions. For a car driven 10,000 km annually, that is roughly 1.3 to 2.0 tonnes of CO2 a year from tailpipe alone. India’s transport sector contributes around 8 percent of national greenhouse […]