Decarbonly helps Indian companies navigate the full spectrum of carbon and ESG compliance - from India's CCTS and BRSR mandates to Europe's CBAM, CSRD, and the expanding wave of cross-border climate regulations. European regulatory experience. Indian market precision. One platform.
Who we help
Decarbonly serves both sides of the India-Europe compliance conversation.
Why this matters now
The compliance data gap is already costing unprepared companies market share and revenue.
490+ facilities must measure, report, and trade carbon credits on Indian power exchanges.
Top 1,000 listed companies need third-party ESG assurance across 140+ disclosure indicators.
Indian exporters of steel, cement, aluminium & fertilisers must verify embedded carbon.
Indian MNCs with EU subsidiaries or €450M+ EU revenue enter mandatory sustainability reporting.
The regulations are not the hard part. The data behind them is.
Sector Depth
India's second largest industrial emitter. CCTS target: mandatory emission intensity reduction from facility baseline. CBAM exposure moderate and growing as EU coverage expands to cement derivatives.
India's largest CBAM-exposed export sector. BF-BOF route emission intensity 54% above EU benchmark. CBAM cost estimate: $69–173 per tonne of steel exported to EU by 2034.
Electricity is everything. CBAM covers Scope 2 indirect emissions for aluminium. Coal-powered smelters face a $1,000+ per tonne CBAM penalty disadvantage versus hydro-powered competitors.
86% of India's LNG sourced from West Asia. Ammonia and nitric acid subject to CBAM calculations. Green hydrogen transition is the long-term pathway, but HPO obligations land now.
In CCTS scope. BRSR assurance mandatory for listed textile mills. European fast fashion sustainability rules and EU Digital Product Passports creating intense supply chain pressure.
Complex CCTS boundary definitions. High EU export exposure in specialty chemicals. CSRD requirements for Indian MNCs operating European subsidiaries.
Financial Reality
What this means: A cement or steel plant generating a 100,000 tonne shortfall faces a ₹5–15 crore annual compliance bill on carbon power exchanges.
What this means: Indian exporters without verified primary data pay default values for emissions they never produced, making products uncompetitive in Europe.
What this means: Missing your intensity target and failing to purchase Carbon Credit Certificates on time doubles your compliance cost automatically.
Core Practice Areas
Embedded carbon calculation, ISO 14065 verifier coordination, and EU customer data packages.
GHG inventory, BEE MRV alignment, plant boundary definition, and trading strategy.
Materiality mapping, 140+ indicator data architecture, and third-party audit preparation.
Double materiality, Scope 3 supply chain mapping, and BRSR-to-CSRD transition frameworks.
Executive training, cohort certifications, and practical workshops for leadership teams.
Our Methodology
We assess where you stand: your sector, current data infrastructure, export exposure, and specific deadlines across CCTS, BRSR, or CBAM.
We build your data architecture, establish calculation methodologies, gather primary operational metrics, and assemble audit evidence.
We prepare and submit verified compliance declarations, coordinate accredited third-party verification, and answer regulator inquiries.
We keep your compliance current as BEE, SEBI, and EU regulations evolve, ensuring your market position remains secure every year.
How We Work
Compliance data that faces regulatory audit needs to be built the right way from the start. Here is how we build it.
Every calculation, gap analysis, and filing strategy is governed by in-house carbon accountants and climate policy specialists. Never delegated to unverified scripts or automated outputs that cannot be explained to a verification body.
We use software selectively to remove tedious data-entry bottlenecks - reading utility bills, processing invoice formats, structuring large datasets. Core methodologies remain fully deterministic and auditable. Every number has a traceable source.
Your operational and supply chain metrics are protected with enterprise-level isolation protocols. We never feed your proprietary data into public AI models or external third-party tools. Your competitive information stays yours.
Receive high-touch, hands-on consulting from day one, supported by a growing digital infrastructure that scales with your ongoing compliance roadmap. The rigour of a specialist advisor with the efficiency of a platform.
Our Edge
One Year With Decarbonly
Accurate, structured, auditable. Ready for any verifier, any regulator, or any European customer who asks for it.
Non-compliance costs multiples of what advisory costs. We ensure you never pay default CBAM penalties or CCTS multipliers.
Because you have the underlying data infrastructure, methodologies, and internal processes ready for whatever comes next.
Regulatory Intelligence Briefing
One email. Every two weeks. What changed in India's carbon and ESG compliance landscape - and what it means for your business. CCTS price movements, BEE notifications, CBAM implementation updates, and BRSR amendments. Written for CFOs, sustainability heads, and compliance teams who need to act on it.
Independent research. No sponsored content. No investment advice. Unsubscribe anytime.
Talk to us before your first compliance date lands. First 30-minute scoping call is free.
Talk to usOur Story
Decarbonly was built from a specific vantage point: deep inside the European sustainable finance and climate regulation landscape - EU ETS, CSRD, CBAM, SFDR - with one eye always on India's rapidly evolving compliance market.
That position is not something you build in a classroom. It comes from working on both sides of the transaction: understanding what European regulators and customers demand, and knowing how Indian industrial facilities actually operate.
Market Misalignment
European buyers and regulators assume data exists, is digitized, and can be pulled instantly. They issue technical CBAM requests or CSRD Scope 3 questionnaires expect audit-grade accuracy on tight deadlines.
Indian manufacturers have operational data scattered across spreadsheets, plant logbooks, and utility bills. They understand their plant efficiency perfectly, but lack the translation layer into EU/BEE carbon accounting methodologies.
Client Engagement
We do not arrive with a template and a team of analysts who have never been inside an Indian industrial facility.
We start by understanding your specific situation - your sector, your EU export exposure, your current data infrastructure, your deadlines. Most of our clients come to us having received a regulatory notification they do not fully understand, or a data request from a European customer they have never seen before.
The first conversation is 30 minutes. No pitch. We ask questions, you tell us where you are, and we tell you honestly what you need and whether we are the right people to help you.
Everything after that is structured, documented, and delivered on time.
"We are often asked how we can guarantee the quality of work in a market this new and this complex. Our four methodology pillars are the answer."
Capabilities
EU CBAM calculation methodologies, default vs actual emissions, verifier coordination.
BEE Form A/B submissions, facility intensity baselines, CCC trading strategy.
SEBI BRSR Core indicators, value chain disclosures, assurance readiness.
Double materiality assessments, ESRS standards, cross-border parent-subsidiary reporting.
Scope 1, 2, and 3 accounting under GHG Protocol and ISO 14064 standards.
Price forecasting, regulatory tracking, and executive capacity building.
Trust & Ethics
We do not receive referral fees from verification bodies, registries, or technology vendors. Our advice is based solely on what is right for your compliance situation - not on commercial relationships.
The Indian carbon market is new. Some regulatory questions do not have definitive answers yet. We tell you when we are certain and when we are working with the best available market information.
We do not arrive with a generic sustainability framework and fit your company into it. Every engagement starts with understanding your specific situation, your sector, and your actual deadlines.
Carbon and ESG compliance already has enough jargon. We translate regulations into clear business decisions: what you need to do, when, and what it costs if you do not.
Decarbonly exists to turn complex cross-border regulations into predictable, manageable operational processes.
Full-Spectrum Practice
Decarbonly acts as the operational bridge connecting regulator mandates with auditable corporate execution.
We translate complex regulatory requirements into operational, audit-ready action for your business.
Your European customers are legally required to declare embedded carbon for every tonne of steel, aluminium, cement, or fertiliser imported into the EU. If you do not provide primary verified data, default penal values apply.
We perform facility-level embedded carbon calculations, map complex precursor emissions across your supply chain, coordinate ISO 14065 verifiers, and generate standard XML/Excel CBAM declaration packages.
India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme obligates industrial plants to meet strict greenhouse gas emission intensity targets. Facilities that beat targets earn Carbon Credit Certificates (CCCs); underperformers must purchase credits on exchanges.
We establish your plant baseline, set up monthly MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification) data capture aligned with BEE guidelines, and formulate trading strategies on IEX and PXIL.
SEBI's mandate requires top listed Indian entities to publish Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reports (BRSR) and secure reasonable assurance over BRSR Core metrics including value chain disclosures.
We structure cross-departmental data governance across E, S, and G pillars, map suppliers for value chain reporting, and prepare bulletproof audit trails for assurance providers.
For Indian companies operating European subsidiaries or seeking EU capital, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandates rigorous Double Materiality Assessments and ESRS disclosures.
We bridge your existing Indian BRSR data with EU ESRS requirements, saving hundreds of hours of redundant data collection and ensuring international comparability.
Regulations move faster than internal corporate knowledge. We run custom executive workshops, plant manager certification programs, and finance team briefings on CCTS, CBAM, and carbon market mechanics.
Equip your board, C-suite, and plant teams with practical knowledge on how carbon intensity directly impacts EBITDA and market access.
Sector Coverage
CCTS targets are sector-specific. CBAM costs vary dramatically by production route. BRSR requirements depend on company size and sector profile. There is no generic compliance solution. Start with your sector.
Free Resources
We publish practical guides, checklists, and regulatory trackers for every framework Decarbonly covers. All free. All written for people who have to act on the information.
What embedded carbon is, how it is calculated, what your EU customer needs, and the timeline to September 2027. 20 pages. Updated after every major CBAM circular.
How the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme works, what MRV requires, how CCC trading functions on IEX and PXIL, and what your first compliance year looks like.
140+ indicators. For each one: what data is needed, who owns it inside your company, what source document evidences it, and what assurance bodies will check.
Updated monthly by Decarbonly's climate intelligence team.
| Deadline | Regulation | Who is affected | What must be done | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2027 | CBAM First Annual Declaration | Indian exporters to EU in covered sectors | Submit verified embedded carbon data for 2026 shipments | Upcoming |
| FY2026-27 | BRSR Core Assurance | Top 1,000 listed Indian companies | Obtain reasonable third-party assurance on BRSR Core indicators | Current |
| October 2026 | CCTS Trading Live | 490+ obligated industrial facilities | MRV submissions, CCC trading on power exchanges (IEX/PXIL) | Live |
| FY2027 | CSRD Scope Expansion | Indian MNCs with EU revenue > €450M | Mandatory ESRS-based sustainability reporting for non-EU parents | Approaching |
Yes - CBAM has no minimum threshold for exporters. Even small volumes require your EU importer to declare embedded carbon. The financial impact may be small, but the data requirement is identical. The practical question is whether your EU customer will absorb default penalty costs or pass them to you.
Partially. Some of the emissions data you collect for BRSR overlaps with what CBAM requires. But CBAM uses a different calculation methodology, different system boundaries, and requires third-party verification under specific ISO standards. BRSR data is a useful starting point but not a substitute.
CCTS is India's domestic carbon market - a compliance scheme for Indian industrial facilities with mandatory emission intensity targets. CBAM is a European Union regulation that applies to companies importing goods into the EU. They are separate systems with separate obligations, but for Indian industrial exporters, both apply simultaneously.
Not yet. For CCTS, the first compliance year is underway and MRV preparation should ideally have begun - but the penalty period is ahead. For CBAM, the first declaration is September 2027 and the measurement period is active - meaning data collection must start now.
It depends on scope. We customize the price depending on your needs. We offer the best price in the market. The first 30-minute scoping call is free.
No. Accredited verification bodies (Bureau Veritas, TÜV SÜD, DNV, etc.) perform the verification. Decarbonly prepares your data and documentation so that verification passes cleanly and quickly on the first attempt.
Insights
Analysis, regulatory circular breakdowns, and market commentary for CFOs, sustainability leaders, and plant directors.
The CBAM data request from your EU buyer is not a questionnaire. It is a technical specification requiring verified embedded carbon calculations.
Indian industrial companies know energy monitoring. CCTS requires greenhouse gas intensity accounting. Here is what changes for your plant.
The same three calculation errors keep appearing in listed company filings. All three are easily fixed before your assurance audit.
How non-EU ultimate parent companies can use BRSR disclosures to streamline European ESRS compliance.
Get In Touch
Whether you are an Indian manufacturer facing a CBAM data request, a listed company preparing for BRSR assurance, a European company needing verified carbon data from your Indian supply chain, or an individual wanting to understand this market better - the first conversation is free.
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Email us directly about your CBAM or CCTS exposure for a quick, specific answer within 24 hours.
Tell us your situation. We tell you what you need and whether Decarbonly is the right fit. No pitch.
After a scoping call, we send a proposal with a clear scope, timeline, and fixed fee.
