Last mentioned: Mar 22, 2026
Net Zero Target
India's long-term deadline for achieving national carbon neutrality.
Compliance Window Opens
490 obligated entities begin tracking against new emission intensity targets.
Trading Commencement
Anticipated start of formal domestic carbon certificate trading.
Policy Announcement
Union Power Minister Manohar Lal announces 4-month timeline for carbon market launch.
India will commence formal trading in its domestic carbon market within the next four months, establishing a regulated economic framework to curb emissions. The initiative mandates 490 obligated entities to meet greenhouse gas emission intensity targets starting in 2026, marking a critical step toward the nation's 2070 net-zero goal.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme across our startup coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running startup beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |