Archive · 24 Sep 2026
Centre Revises Emission Targets for Refineries, Textiles
The government has changed rules that measure pollution from oil refineries and textile factories.
These rules set targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
The targets are linked to India’s domestic carbon market.
The environment ministry first announced the targets in January.
It changed the rules on September 22.
The change updated the starting pollution levels for seven Indian Oil refineries.
Because the starting levels changed, some reduction targets also changed.
The targets for 2025–26 were left empty.
The article says this may be because that compliance period has ended.
The Centre amended legally binding greenhouse-gas emission-intensity targets for petroleum refineries and textile units.
The targets were introduced under the Carbon Credits Trading Scheme for the domestic carbon market.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued the amendment on September 22.
Baseline emission intensities were revised for seven Indian Oil refineries in Digboi, Gujarat, Guwahati, Haldia, Mathura, Panipat, and Paradeep.
The amended notification leaves 2025–26 reduction targets blank, ostensibly because the compliance period has ended.
- Who
- The Centre and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; affected facilities include seven Indian Oil refineries and textile-sector units.
- What
- An amendment revised greenhouse-gas emission-intensity baselines and related reduction targets for petroleum refineries and the textile sector.
- When
- The original targets were notified in January, and the amendment was issued on September 22; the 2025–26 targets are blank.
- Where
- The affected refineries are in Digboi, Gujarat, Guwahati, Haldia, Mathura, Panipat, and Paradeep.
- Why
- The targets are part of the Carbon Credits Trading Scheme and are intended to bring sectors under the domestic carbon market.
- Regulator
- Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Covered sectors
- Petroleum refineries and textiles
- Policy framework
- Carbon Credits Trading Scheme
- Target type
- Greenhouse-gas emission-intensity reduction
- Amendment date
- September 22
- Affected refineries
- Seven Indian Oil refineries
- 2025–26 targets
- Left blank in the amended notification