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Saurabh Diddi

Director, Bureau of Energy Efficiency

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India launches national carbon market, joining global push to price emissions

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Leading ICM implementation and methodology development

India, the world's most populous country and third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, now has a live digital platform for trading carbon credits. The Indian Carbon Market portal, launched March 21 at the Prakriti 2026 summit in New Delhi, allows industries to register emission-reduction projects, earn Carbon Credit Certificates, and trade them on supervised power exchanges — a mechanism designed to put a price on pollution across nine industrial sectors.

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