Battery waste portal now cross-checks producer claims against GST and customs data
New Delhi - The battery waste compliance portal now cross-checks declared sales against GST filings and customs data, and that single integration has done more to enforce the rules than…
E-waste recycling targets hit 70 per cent as certificate price band stays in court
New Delhi - Producers of electronic goods must recycle 70 per cent of their estimated waste generation in financial years 2025-26 and 2026-27, up from 60 per cent, with the…
India has awarded 862,000 tonnes of green hydrogen capacity and built 8,000
New Delhi - India has awarded incentives for 862,000 tonnes a year of green hydrogen production. It has commissioned roughly 8,000. The gap between those two numbers is the story…
POSH compliance moves onto the board report as enforcement tightens
New Delhi - Compliance with the law on workplace sexual harassment has moved out of the human resources department and onto the board report, and enforcement in 2026 has caught…
CPCB moves from nudges to penalties on plastic packaging targets
New Delhi - The Central Pollution Control Board has moved from persuasion to penalty on plastic packaging, and the companies most exposed are the ones that registered on the portal…
CBAM definitive phase is already costing Indian steel exporters volume, not just money
New Delhi - The European Union's carbon border levy stopped being a reporting exercise on 1 January 2026, and Indian exporters of steel and aluminium are already absorbing the cost…
India has three kinds of carbon credit, and only one discharges an obligation
India now has two carbon credit systems running at once, and they are not interchangeable. Confusing them is the most common error in Indian corporate climate communication. The compliance market…
How to read a BRSR filing, and which hundred pages to skip
A Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report runs to well over a hundred pages. Most of it is narrative. A small part of it is checked. Knowing which is which is…
Scope 1, 2 and 3 explained, and which one companies prefer to talk about
Almost every corporate climate claim rests on three categories of emissions. Understanding what each covers, and which one companies prefer to discuss, is the fastest way to read a sustainability…
Drug plant effluent breeds resistance while complying fully with discharge limits
Hyderabad - Around 30 per cent of India drug exports are manufactured around Hyderabad, and researchers have repeatedly found antibiotic concentrations in local water bodies approaching therapeutic doses. Water carrying…
