Insights
Short notes on the questions lenders, regulators, verifiers and buyers are asking now: what they check, and how to answer it. Every figure is sourced and dated.
Headlines
Regulatory dates and decisions our clients act on, each linked to the primary source. Updated 17 October 2026.
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EU Deforestation Regulation applies to large and medium operators. European Commission
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UK starts for aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen, iron and steel. EU default-value mark-up rises to 20%. HMRC; Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1740
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EU CBAM certificate sales open on the common central platform. European Commission
Recent
- CBAM
Q3 2026 CBAM certificate price published: €82.32 per tonne . European Commission
- Trade
EU–India FTA, with its carbon border annex, sent to the Council for signature. European Commission
- UK
UK confirms its CBAM operative date of 1 January 2027; glass and ceramics excluded. HMRC
- CBAM
Accredited CBAM verifiers register in the registry; first site verifications begin. European Commission
- CBAM
Commission publishes sector guidance for non-EU CBAM operators. European Commission
- CBAM
Corrected CBAM published, including India-specific values. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1740
- India
India extends GHG emission intensity targets to refineries, petrochemicals, textiles and secondary aluminium. MoEFCC (PIB)
Technical notes
Noise limits in India and the IFC guidelines: which one applies
India's Noise Rules set limits by area category over a 16-hour day and an 8-hour night. IFC sets hourly limits at each receptor, plus a 3 dB cap on any rise over background. A lender-financed project in India has to pass both.
CBAM for Indian exporters: what to have ready before September 2027
The EU's carbon border charge has applied to imports since 1 January 2026. Your EU buyer pays it, but how much they pay depends on data only your plant can supply.
Marine piling under the 2024 NOAA thresholds
NOAA Fisheries replaced its 2018 marine mammal acoustic guidance in October 2024. Hearing groups were renamed and several injury thresholds moved, so models built on the 2018 tables can report the wrong zones.
Steel route intensity and what it means for an iron metallics project
Per tonne of crude steel, the blast furnace route emits more than three times the CO₂ of scrap-based electric arc furnaces. Direct reduced iron sits between them.
What changed in the 2021 WHO air quality guidelines
Of the seven guideline values that existed in both editions, WHO tightened five, left ozone unchanged and raised SO₂. A baseline that meets national standards can still sit several times above the 2021 values.
Most Scope 3 numbers are secondary data, and the disclosure should say so
For companies reporting to CDP, supply chain emissions are on average 26 times operational emissions, and in our experience most of that figure still comes from average-data factors.
Three inputs decide most dispersion results
In our experience, the meteorological record, the source parameters and the treatment of buildings and terrain account for most of the spread between two credible models of the same stack.
Twelve weeks of monitoring is not automatically a baseline
Reviewers rarely reject a baseline for having too few data points. They reject it when the report does not show that the data represents the site.
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