Author: Sagari Gupta

On January 13, 2026, the Union government notified greenhouse gas emission intensity reduction targets for petroleum refineries, petrochemicals, textiles and secondary aluminium under the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS). The decision brought another 208 industrial entities under India’s compliance-based carbon market, taking the total number of obligated entities across seven sectors to 490. The newly covered entities include 173 textile units, 21 petroleum refineries, 11 petrochemical units and three secondary aluminium plants. Three months earlier, the government had notified targets for 282 entities in the aluminium, cement, chlor-alkali, and pulp and paper sectors. The development attracted little public attention. Yet…