New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- The government should "mandate low carbon products" to accelerate India's industrial transition towards sustainability and should start with public procurement, according to Prabodha Acharya, Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW Group.

"This is about identifying and encouraging the projects which can make a difference in the industrial transition to low-carbon products," Acharya told ANI on the sidelines of the Industrial Transition Accelerator event in New Delhi.

Mandating low-carbon products involves governments creating policies that require or incentivise the use of goods and materials with lower greenhouse gas emissions, such as setting quotas for near-zero-emission materials, incorporating them into public procur...