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Emissions Trading And Carbon Credits In India: A Legal Perspective
India has pledged to reduce its GDP emissions intensity by 45% by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2070. The Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, 2023 establishes a baseline-and-credit system requiring energy-intensive industries to meet greenhouse gas emission intensity targets or purchase carbon credit certificates. This framework shifts India's regulatory focus from energy efficiency to carbon intensity, creating both mandatory compliance obligations and voluntary offset opportunities.
India Environment
AP
Argus Partners
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Public Law Environment Newsletter | July 2026
The Public Law Practice Group at Dentons Link Legal presents this edition of the Environment Law Newsletter, highlighting recent legal and regulatory developments shaping India’s environmental landscape. As concerns over environmental degradation continue to intensify, this issue examines key ecological and compliance challenges across industries with significant environmental footprints, alongside broader developments in pollution control, conservation, and sustainable resource governance
India Environment
DL
Dentons Link Legal
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The Carbon Liability Of Corporations: Recasting Business Responsibility Through Climate Litigation In India
Climate change today is no longer a mere policy dilemma or a matter confined to scientific discourse, it has firmly entered the domain of rights, law, and justice. Across jurisdictions, courts are being compelled to answer a profoundly consequential question: can corporations that substantially contribute to greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions be held legally liable for the harms their activities help create? In the Indian context, this question assumes particular urgency.
India Commercial
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MZM Legal
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Ministry Of New And Renewable Energy Notifies Green Ammonia Standard And Green Methanol Standard For India Under The National Green Hydrogen Mission
The Government of India is implementing the National Green Hydrogen Mission (“NGHM”), with an objective to make India a global hub of production, usage and export of green hydrogen and its derivatives. A global demand of over 100 (hundred) million metric tonnes of green hydrogen and its derivatives is expected to emerge by 2030.
India Energy
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JSA
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Ministry Of New And Renewable Energy Proposes Extension Of Approved Models And Manufacturers Framework To Solar Wafer Manufacturing
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy ("MNRE"), vide office memorandum dated March 17, 2026 ("Memorandum"), has proposed amendments to the Approved Models and Manufacturers of Solar Photovoltaic ("PV") Modules (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Order, 2019 ("ALMM Order"), inter alia, to introduce a new Approved List of Models and Manufacturers ("ALMM") List-III for PV wafers.
India Energy
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JSA
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