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A CCTS compliance platform India needs — what the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme asks of obligated entities, and how carbon credit MRV system design should work.
The Carbon Credit Trading Scheme is India's domestic compliance carbon market, established under the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022. It sets greenhouse-gas emissions intensity targets for obligated entities in designated sectors, who can meet those targets directly or trade Carbon Credit Certificates with entities that have outperformed theirs.
CCTS is structured around emissions intensity rather than an absolute cap in its initial phase, and the list of obligated sectors and entity-level targets is set and updated through official notifications — confirm current obligated-sector status and targets against those notifications rather than this summary.
Carbon credit MRV system design starts here: an obligated entity needs a monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) process capable of producing an auditable emissions-intensity figure per reporting cycle, reconciled against production data.
Where a Carbon Credit Certificate is issued or purchased, the entity needs a system of record that can demonstrate the certificate's provenance and prevent double-counting internally before it ever reaches the registry — this is CCTS compliance for Indian manufacturers in practice, not just a reporting formality.
Carbon credit MRV system design with data pipelines that tie directly to production and energy-consumption systems, not a manually reconciled monthly export.
A CCTS compliance platform for India that can sit alongside BRSR and, where relevant, CBAM reporting from the same underlying data — most obligated entities eventually need more than one regime satisfied from one data set.
Verification-ready audit trails by default, not built retroactively when an auditor asks for one.
CCTS is currently structured around emissions-intensity targets by sector rather than an absolute, economy-wide cap. Obligated entities that beat their intensity target can generate tradeable certificates; those that miss it can purchase certificates to comply.
Obligated sectors and entity-level targets are set through official government notification and have been phased in progressively. Confirm the current list against the latest Bureau of Energy Efficiency and Ministry of Power notifications rather than any static summary.
No — they serve different purposes. BRSR is a disclosure framework for listed companies covering environmental, social and governance performance broadly; CCTS is a compliance carbon market with trading obligations for specific sectors. A well-built platform reports both from one data foundation rather than treating them as separate systems.
This page summarises a regulatory regime for orientation purposes and reflects our understanding as of the review date above. Regulatory detail changes; confirm current thresholds, deadlines and obligated-entity status against the official regulator or notification before acting on it.
This is the regime. See how we build against it.