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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
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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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An Overview Of Extended Producer Responsibility For Plastic Waste Management
India generates an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, of which a substantial share, approximately 10,556 tonnes daily, remains uncollected and enters landfills or the open environment. To address this, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (“MoEFCC”) has notified a national Extended Producer Responsibility (“EPR”) framework for plastic packaging under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, as amended from time to time.
India Environment
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S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates
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How Is India Building A Compliance Carbon Market Without A Supporting Tax Architecture
India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme faces a critical gap as the first compliance year approaches in April 2026. While the Energy Conservation Act established the carbon market framework and the Income Tax Act was completely revamped in 2025, the legislature failed to connect these two pieces of legislation, leaving carbon credit certificate transactions in a tax limbo that threatens to undermine the country's ambitious net-zero 2070 goals.
India Tax
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Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
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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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Carbon Credits Enter The Market: India's First Regulatory Framework For Exchange-Traded Carbon Credit Certificate
The concept emerged from international climate architecture - first under the Kyoto Protocol, 1997, which introduced market-based mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism, allowing developed countries to offset emissions by investing in reduction projects in developing nations, and subsequently under the Paris Agreement, 2015, which commits signatory nations to achieving their self-declared Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) towards limiting global temperature rise.
India Energy
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Khaitan & Co LLP
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