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Draft Greenhouse Gases Emission Intensity Target Rules
April 26 , 2025
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- Centre has issued a draft notification introducing the Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Target Rules, 2025 under the carbon credit trading Scheme, 2023.
- The rules are issued under Energy Conservation Act, 2001 and the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
- It proposes an emission intensity target for designated industrial sectors, to be implemented by the Bureau of energy efficiency (BEE).
- The Targets will be defined in terms of tonnes of CO₂ equivalent emissions per tonne of equivalent production, applicable for the compliance period 2025-26 to 2026-27, based on 2023-24 baseline data.
- The rules cover high-emission sectors such as aluminium and cement.
- Companies like Vedanta, Hindalco, NALCO, and Ultratech Cement have assigned specific baseline and target values.
- For instance, Vedanta's Smelter II in Jharsuguda of Odisha which has produced 12,38,336 tonne of aluminium in 2023-24 will be required to reduce the GHG emission intensity to 13.2260 and 12.8259 in 2025-26 and 2026-27 respectively.
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