{"id":347926,"date":"2025-10-13T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=347926"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:08:36","slug":"greenhouse-gas-emission-intensity-gei-target-rules-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/greenhouse-gas-emission-intensity-gei-target-rules-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Recently, the Environment Ministry notified India\u2019s first legally binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>About Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Greenhouse-Gas-Emission-Intensity-GEI-Targets-Rules-2025.webp?resize=335%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Greenhouse-Gas-Emission-Intensity-GEI-Targets-Rules-2025.webp?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Greenhouse-Gas-Emission-Intensity-GEI-Targets-Rules-2025.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rules <strong>set targets for how much greenhouse gas can be emitted to make one unit of product<\/strong>, measured in tonnes of CO\u2082-equivalent (<strong>tCO\u2082e<\/strong>) per unit of output.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enforced by<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Notified by<\/strong> the Ministry of <strong>Environment, Forest and Climate Change.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Bureau of Energy Efficiency<\/strong> issues the <strong>carbon credit certificates<\/strong> and determines the <strong>average trading price<\/strong> used for compliance calculations.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Central Pollution Control Board<\/strong> imposes the <strong>environmental compensation<\/strong> on non-compliant facilities and is <strong>responsible for recovering these.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>To promote the <strong>adoption of<\/strong> <strong>sustainable, cutting-edge technologies<\/strong> across traditionally high-emission industries, for addressing climate change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Linked with:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS):<\/strong> GEI Rules are directly linked to the <strong>CCTS 2023<\/strong>, because they <strong>create the emission-intensity targets<\/strong> that will <strong>generate tradable carbon credits<\/strong> in India\u2019s domestic carbon market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paris Climate Agreement, 2015:<\/strong> It is also align with the Paris Climate Agreement, 2015, by supporting India\u2019s nationally determined targets to reduce the emission intensity of GDP by <strong>45% by 2030<\/strong> from <strong>2005<\/strong> levels and to achieve <strong>net zero by 2070<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme <\/strong>: The Rules build on the PAT scheme (energy efficiency without direct carbon limits)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> In addition, they <strong>help Indian exporters<\/strong> prepare for mechanisms like the European Union\u2019s CBAM, which affects carbon-intensive exports such as cement, steel, and aluminium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key feature<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First legally binding emission<\/strong> intensity targets for <strong>four high-emission sectors (aluminium, cement, chlor-alkali, and pulp and paper).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It cover <strong>282 units for 2025\u201326 and 2026\u201327. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sectoral<\/strong> reduction ranges over <strong>two years<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>3.4% (cement)<\/li>\n<li>5.8% (aluminium)<\/li>\n<li>7.5% (chlor-alkali)<\/li>\n<li>7.1% (pulp and paper).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Each facility is assigned a <strong>GEI target using a 2023\u201324 baseline<\/strong>, and the target is measured as <strong>tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO<\/strong>\u2082<strong>e) per unit of product.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If a facility performs better than its target, it <strong>earns tradable carbon credit certificates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>If it fails to meet the target, it must <strong>purchase equivalent carbon credits<\/strong> or <strong>pay environmental compensation<\/strong> set at <strong>twice the average trading price<\/strong>for that year.<\/li>\n<li>Any environmental compensation that becomes due <strong>must be paid within 90 days<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the Environment Ministry notified India\u2019s first legally binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025. About Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025 The Rules set targets for how much greenhouse gas can be emitted to make one unit of product, measured in tonnes of CO\u2082-equivalent (tCO\u2082e) per unit of output.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/greenhouse-gas-emission-intensity-gei-target-rules-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-347926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}