India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme is a compliance market being built in public, one notification at a time.
Subjects kept current, not written once
Each track answers the same six questions about one subject, and carries the date each answer was last checked. Where a question has no answer yet, it says so, and says since when.
These pages are in beta. Every figure carries its source and date — check the primary document before you act on one.
What a track is, and how to read one
A track takes one subject and answers the same six questions about it, in the same order, every time. Each answer carries the date it was last checked and the document it came from. Where a question has no answer yet, the track says so and says since when.
How to read the six slots
Why a map rather than a feed
Confidence comes from visible completeness, not from more writing. A list of articles in reverse-chronological order never tells you how much exists, where you are in it, or whether you are finished. A fixed structure answers all three before you read a word. And because the six are identical on every track, the second track you open costs you no learning at all.
The six slots
These are the questions any participant asks about any subject in this market, in the order they ask them. Nothing is filed anywhere else.
| # | Slot | The question it answers | What gets filed here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trigger | Why does this reach me? | Notified sectors, thresholds and named lists — and, where nothing compels anyone, customer codes, lender covenants, tender rules and framework pledges. |
| 2 | Requirement | What would have to be true, in numbers? | Targets, intensities, baselines and surrender duties — and framework criteria, disclosure attributes and assurance levels. |
| 3 | Instruments | What counts as a valid response? | Methodologies, tools, credit types, eligible technologies, accounting and assurance standards. |
| 4 | Readiness | Can this actually be done today? | Registries, verifiers, assurance providers, accreditations, authorisations and whether the data exists at all. |
| 5 | Economics | What does it cost, and what is it worth? | Prices, penalties and project economics — and cost of capital, tender access, realised premium, risk avoided. |
| 6 | Response | What are the options, and what are others choosing? | Strategy branches, peer disclosures, procurement behaviour, and who has actually registered. |
Three states, and why the empty ones matter most
Every slot carries exactly one state. The states describe the outside world, not how far along the writing is.
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Settled | Act on this today |
| In motion | Track it, do not plan on it |
| Absent | Watch it — here is what is missing, and since when |
A grey slot is the most useful thing on the page. Where the answer a slot asks for does not exist yet, that is usually the fact that will stop you — and it is the one nobody else publishes, because absence is harder to write than presence and reads as if the work is unfinished. Every gap here carries the date the watch began and the date it was last checked, so you can see it is a finding rather than a blank.
Where opinion sits
Commentary attaches inside a slot, not beside it. A view on whether something can actually be done today appears in Readiness, on the page, at the point where you are stuck — rather than in a separate opinion piece you would have to go looking for.
Every slot ends somewhere
Each one closes with a single next step and states the commercial relationship either way. Most point somewhere other than us, and some point nowhere at all, with the date the watch began. A reference where every answer is “hire us” is a brochure, and gets read as one.
The credits exist. The authorisations to use them mostly do not.