Leveraging Carbon Markets for Cost-Efficient Emissions Reductions in India

The document argues that a well-integrated carbon market in India can lower emissions reduction costs for industry and facilitate low-carbon transformation. It emphasizes that successful implementation requires tailored capacity building, iterative design through simulations and pilots, industry engagement, and complementary policies to mitigate competitiveness and distributional risks. The report suggests that a single framework could potentially subsume existing market-based mechanisms to improve administration and compliance.

• A properly designed carbon market in India can lower the costs of reducing emissions for industry and support the country's climate and economic objectives, while providing financing and technology transfer for micro, small, and medium enterprises.
• Poorly designed carbon markets risk creating inefficiencies, inequity, carbon leakage, loss of competitiveness, and compliance failures due to the complexity of implementation and high transaction costs.
• The success of a carbon market depends on several critical factors: stakeholder capacity building, the use of pilots and simulations for design evolution, industry buy-in, and policies that address the distributional and competitiveness impacts of carbon pricing.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Leveraging Carbon Markets for Cost-Efficient Emissions Reductions in India. https://www.wri.org/research/carbon-markets-cost-efficient-emissions-reductions-india

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Leveraging Carbon Markets for Cost-Efficient Emissions Reductions in India. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/carbon-markets-cost-efficient-emissions-reductions-india.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendleveraging, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Leveraging Carbon Markets for Cost-Efficient Emissions Reductions in India}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/carbon-markets-cost-efficient-emissions-reductions-india}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }