Guwahati, June 17 -- Every Car India Scraps Is a Carbon Credit Waiting to Be Claimed: Why Mobility's Circular Dividend Is the Missing Piece in Corporate Net Zero. Every scrapped vehicle in India carries a number that has, until now, gone uncounted. Embodied inside its steel, aluminium, copper, and plastic is a quantum of carbon that took energy to mine, smelt, and assemble. When the vehicle reaches end of life, recycling that material avoids a fresh round of primary production and the emissions that come with it. The resultant dividend is real and measurable. The problem has never been the value. It has been the absence of verification at the moment the value is created.

However, that absence is closing. India's Carbon Credit Trading Sch...