EU Packaging Rules Are Live
On 12 August 2026, the European Union's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), formally Regulation (EU) 2025/40, began applying on the ground, with the first substantive restriction under the law now in force. For any Indian business that manufactures, exports, or sells packaging or packaged products into the EU, this marks the start of a multi-year compliance journey that touches design, materials, labelling, and recyclability across the entire packaging lifecycle.
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GHG Protocol Scope 2 in Transition
Why Scope 2 Is Being Rewritten? In 2015, GHG Protocol introduced the Scope 2 rules companies still use today. These rules allow two ways to report emissions from purchased electricity: the location-based method and the market-based method. Ten years on, GHG Protocol is now running its biggest review of these rules yet. Between October and January 2026, GHG Protocol asked the public for feedback in two separate consultations. One covered proposed changes to Scope 2 accounting.
4 days ago
BRSR Series. Part 3: Value Chain Partner Reporting
In the first two posts of this series, we've unpacked how BRSR Core applies to a listed company's own operations — the nine KPIs, the assurance glide path, who can audit what. But BRSR Core doesn't stop at the boundary of the listed entity. It reaches into the value chain: the suppliers a company buys from, and the customers and distributors it sells to. This is the part of BRSR Core that catches most people off guard — not because the rule is complicated, but because of who
Aug 10
