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🇪🇺LIVECBAM definitive regime in force since 1 Jan 2026 — embedded emissions now carry a certificate priceIn force
🇪🇺DEADLINEFirst CBAM annual declaration — CY2026 imports due 30 Sep 2027 via authorised declarants30 Sep 2027
🇪🇺NEWCBAM certificate sales open 1 Feb 2027 — price tracks EU ETS auction averages1 Feb 2027
🇮🇳UPDATECCTS — ~490 obligated entities notified across 7 sectors; first CCC trading expected from late 2026H2 2026
🇮🇳WATCHCCTS iron & steel intensity targets in draft — large PAT designated consumers enter firstIn draft
🇮🇳ALERTSEBI BRSR Core — assurance glidepath extends toward India's top 1,000 listed companiesFY26–27
🇪🇺INFOReg. 2025/2551 — verifier independence codified: preparers cannot attest, attestors cannot prepareEU
🇪🇺INFOCBAM phase-in factor: 2.5% of embedded emissions chargeable in 2026, rising to 100% by 20342026→2034
🇪🇺LIVECBAM definitive regime in force since 1 Jan 2026 — embedded emissions now carry a certificate priceIn force
🇪🇺DEADLINEFirst CBAM annual declaration — CY2026 imports due 30 Sep 2027 via authorised declarants30 Sep 2027
🇪🇺NEWCBAM certificate sales open 1 Feb 2027 — price tracks EU ETS auction averages1 Feb 2027
🇮🇳UPDATECCTS — ~490 obligated entities notified across 7 sectors; first CCC trading expected from late 2026H2 2026
🇮🇳WATCHCCTS iron & steel intensity targets in draft — large PAT designated consumers enter firstIn draft
🇮🇳ALERTSEBI BRSR Core — assurance glidepath extends toward India's top 1,000 listed companiesFY26–27
🇪🇺INFOReg. 2025/2551 — verifier independence codified: preparers cannot attest, attestors cannot prepareEU
🇪🇺INFOCBAM phase-in factor: 2.5% of embedded emissions chargeable in 2026, rising to 100% by 20342026→2034
VERIONEX VERIFIED EMISSIONS DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
CBAM Definitive Regime Live · First Declaration 30 Sep 2027

Capture once. Audit-grade.
Comply everywhere.

Then monetise the upside. // CBAM · CCTS · BRSR — one verified record

Verionex is verified emissions data infrastructure for Indian industry. One dataset, captured at your plant to audit grade, serves every regime that demands it — and becomes an asset your buyers, verifiers and regulators can all trust.

Get a CBAM Exposure Diagnostic See how the spine works
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Three regimes, one verified record
30Sep 27
First CBAM declaration deadline
~490
CCTS obligated entities, 7 sectors
1,000
Listed companies on the BRSR Core glidepath
The Compliance Convergence

Three regimes. One tonne of carbon.
Priced three different ways.

Europe's border price, India's carbon market and SEBI's assurance mandate all converge on the same underlying fact: what your plant actually emits. Whoever holds that fact to audit grade holds the leverage.

₹65–70L
illustrative annual default-value exposure for a typical mid-market EU steel exporter by 2028 — rising every year as the phase-in factor climbs to 100%
Defaults

Default values are priced to punish

When an exporter can't produce verified emissions data, CBAM bills the import at pessimistic default intensities — set deliberately above typical actuals. EU importers pass that bill straight upstream. Every unverified tonne pays the worst-case number.

Duplication

Same tonne, three bills, three advisors

CBAM, CCTS and BRSR each demand emissions data in a different format on a different timeline. Run separately, you pay three advisors to measure the same furnace — and reconcile three versions of one truth when the numbers disagree.

The gap

Calculation is commoditised. Capture is not.

CBAM calculators and reporting templates are everywhere. What barely exists: audit-grade data creation inside real Indian plant conditions — meters, fuel logs, power sourcing, precursor traces. That is the unsolved problem, and the one that decides your bill.

2.5%→100%
CBAM phase-in factor, 2026 to 2034 — the exposure compounds every single year
1 Feb 2027
CBAM certificate sales open; prices track EU ETS auction averages
7
CCTS sectors already notified — iron & steel intensity targets in draft
10–30%
typical gap between default values and verified actuals for efficient plants (illustrative)
The Verionex Spine

One verified record.
Every obligation it has to meet.

Emissions data is captured once at your plant, engineered to audit grade with full evidence lineage — then serves every regime from the same record. Nothing is measured twice. Nothing is asserted without proof.

Source · Capture once

Your Plant

Meter logs, fuel purchases, power sourcing, lab reports, precursor invoices — collected in plant conditions, at source.

REC-2026-00147 VERIFIER-READY
direct_emissions1.84 tCO₂/t
electricityplant-sourced ✓
precursorstraced 3/3 ✓
evidence_links14/14 ✓
audit_trailtimestamped
EU CBAM
declaration + certificates
India CCTS
MRV + credit readiness
SEBI BRSR Core
assured disclosure
01Capture
02Evidence
03Verify-ready
04File everywhere
05Monetise
CBAM Exposure Estimator

What are default values
costing you?

Select your production route and EU export volume. The estimator applies the actual CBAM phase-in schedule, 2026 through 2034, and shows what verified data is worth against the default bill.

Production route
EU export volume
10,000 t / year
EU ETS price
75 / tCO₂
Verified vs default gap
20% below default
Route note: coal-based DRI often runs dirtier than the blast-furnace route — a counterintuitive India-specific reality. Default values hit this route hardest, which makes verified actuals matter most here.
Annual CBAM cost — default vs verified
Phase-in factor applied per year: 2.5% (2026) → 100% (2034) · ₹105 / €
Default values (unverified)
Verified actuals
Your 2028 default bill
at 10% phase-in — this is the early-warning year
Your 2034 default bill
at 100% phase-in — the full-rate reality
Cumulative saving with verified data, 2026–2034
the price of staying unverified
Illustrative estimator using simplified assumptions: indicative route-level default intensities, a flat EU ETS price, a fixed ₹105/€ rate, and the CBAM phase-in schedule (2.5% → 100%, 2026–2034). Real exposure depends on your actual product mix, precursor chain, electricity sourcing and free-allocation adjustments. This is a conversation starter, not a compliance calculation — the CBAM Exposure Diagnostic produces your defensible number.
Three Regimes, One Record

CBAM now.
CCTS-ready by design.

We sequence the regimes honestly. CBAM is the acute, quantified, live obligation for EU exporters — so that's where the record starts. The same record is engineered so CCTS and BRSR are reuse, not rework.

The live wedge

EU CBAM

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

The definitive regime is in force. Every tonne of steel or aluminium entering the EU carries an embedded-emissions price — and without verified data, it's charged at punitive defaults. Verified actuals are legally decisive.

In force1 January 2026
CertificatesOn sale from 1 Feb 2027
DeclarationCY2026 imports due 30 Sep 2027
VerionexSource capture → verifier-ready pack → declaration-grade data
Act now
The domestic deepener

India CCTS

Carbon Credit Trading Scheme

India's compliance carbon market — ~490 obligated entities across seven notified sectors, with iron & steel intensity targets in draft. When targets land, entities with audit-grade data don't scramble. They trade.

Entities~490 obligated, 7 sectors
TradingFirst CCC trading expected late 2026
SteelTargets in draft — large units first
VerionexYour CBAM-grade record is CCTS-MRV-ready the day targets land
Ready by design
The multiplier

SEBI BRSR Core

Business Responsibility & Sustainability Reporting

SEBI's assurance glidepath extends toward India's top 1,000 listed companies — and reasonable assurance means auditors demand evidence, not estimates. The same verified record feeds Scope 1 and 2 disclosure without a third measurement exercise.

ScopeTop listed companies, expanding annually
StandardAssurance-grade — evidence required
OverlapSame emissions object as CBAM & CCTS
VerionexOne record, third filing — near-zero marginal effort
Reuse the record
Why Verionex

Trust is the product.
Everything else is a feature.

A compliance number is only worth what someone else will accept it for. Your EU buyer, the accredited verifier, the Indian regulator and your own auditor all have to believe the same figure. Verionex is engineered around that single requirement.

🔗

Provenance — every number has a parent

Each figure traces to a source document — a meter log, a fuel invoice, a lab report — timestamped, hash-referenced and immutable. No orphan numbers, no retrofitted evidence. If it can't be traced, it doesn't enter the record.

⚖️

Independence — we prepare, verifiers attest

EU rules rightly forbid the preparer from being the attestor. We stay firmly on the preparation side: verifier-ready evidence packs built to the discipline of Reg. 2025/2551, formatted for accredited verifiers — so the attestation that follows is faster, cheaper and unimpeachable.

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Custody — your data stays yours

Discoverability to EU buyers, credit monetisation, any use beyond your own filings — every one of them happens only with your explicit consent. Trust has to run in both directions, or it isn't trust.

verionex · REC-2026-00147 SHA·9f2e…c41a
HR Coil — EU Export Batch Q3 DRI-EAF route · Vizag works · FY27
VERIFIER-READY
Direct emissions (measured)1.84 tCO₂/t
Electricity sourcingplant-level, metered ✓
Precursor embodied carbontraced 3 / 3 ✓
Evidence documents linked14 / 14 ✓
Audit trailcomplete · timestamped
Verifier pack formataccredited-verifier ready
CCTS MRV mappingprepared ✓
BRSR Core feedScope 1 & 2 mapped ✓
2.80
Default tCO₂/t
VS
1.84
Verified tCO₂/t
=
−34%
Chargeable delta
Built for Indian Steel First

Engineered for the plants that actually export.

Not a generic carbon tool with a steel template bolted on. Verionex starts from the routes, products and plant realities of Indian mid-market steel and stainless exporters — promoter-run businesses where the export order book is the business.

Route-aware from day one

BF-BOF, coal DRI-EAF, scrap EAF, stainless — each route has its own emissions physics, its own default values and its own verified-data economics. The capture methodology is built per route, not averaged across them.

Precursor & power granularity CBAM demands

A single grid emission factor satisfies CCTS. CBAM wants plant-level electricity sourcing and the embodied carbon of your precursors. The record carries both resolutions — so one capture satisfies the stricter standard, and everything beneath it for free.

No ESG department required

Built for promoter-run exporters. Your export manager and plant head, plus our team, is the entire operating model — the platform and playbooks carry the compliance burden, not a new hire.

Verifier-aligned evidence packs

Output formatted for accredited verification bodies operating in India from day one — so verification is a review, not an archaeology dig. Faster attestation, lower fees, no surprises.

Default embedded intensity by route
Illustrative CBAM-style defaults, tCO₂ per tonne of product
Coal DRI-EAF (sponge iron)~2.80 tCO₂/t
BF-BOF (blast furnace)~2.33 tCO₂/t
Stainless (CR flat)~1.90 tCO₂/t
Scrap EAF~0.78 tCO₂/t
The counterintuitive one: coal-based DRI — India's most common secondary route — often runs dirtier than the blast furnace it's assumed to beat. Defaults price it accordingly, which is exactly why verified actuals matter most for DRI-route exporters.
How It Works

From diagnostic to dividend.

A sequenced programme, not an open-ended engagement. Each step produces something you keep — and the record compounds in value at every stage.

01

Diagnose

The CBAM Exposure Diagnostic: your EU order book × routes × defaults = your number, quantified and defensible, in three weeks.

02

Capture

MRV capture at source — meters, fuel, power, precursors — engineered for real Indian plant conditions, not idealised templates.

03

Prove

The evidence vault: every figure linked to its source document, timestamped, audit-trailed. This is where audit-grade is earned.

04

Comply

Declaration-grade CBAM data for your EU importers, with CCTS MRV and BRSR Core outputs drawn from the same record.

05

Monetise

Verified low-carbon positioning with EU buyers, and CCTS credit readiness when trading opens — the upside layer, always with consent.

Behind the journey sits the three-layer architecture: advisory gets you compliant fast, the verified system-of-record keeps you compliant at a fraction of the cost, and the network layer — verified-supplier discoverability and credit monetisation — turns the record from a cost of doing business into a source of it.

Why Now

The founding window
is measured in months.

Three clocks are running at once — and all three reward the exporters who move before the deadline makes it obvious.

Definitive regime · Year one

Verified records barely exist yet

The definitive regime is in its first year — verified declarations are scarce everywhere, not just in India. The first exporters to hold audit-grade records own a credential with EU buyers that latecomers cannot backdate. Founding credentials are only available at the founding.

Founding credential
30 Sep 2027 · covers CY2026–27 data

The preparation year is now

The first declaration lands September 2027 — but it covers data being generated right now. Records not captured contemporaneously cannot be verified later. Retrofitted evidence is the one thing audit-grade categorically forbids.

No backdating
Before hydrogen · before EAF conversion

Verified data is the cheapest abatement

Closing the gap between punitive defaults and your verified actuals costs a fraction of any physical decarbonisation lever — and pays back on the first declaration. It's the highest-ROI carbon action available to a mid-market plant, full stop.

Highest ROI
The Team

Deal-grade rigour.
Assurance-grade discipline.

Verionex is founded by practitioners from the two professions that live and die by verified numbers: transaction advisory and corporate governance.

VR
Vivek Rungta
Founder & Managing Director

Vivek brings 17+ years in transaction advisory and financial due diligence, advising private equity and corporate clients on high-stakes deals where every number is contested and every claim must survive scrutiny. Verionex applies that same evidence standard to industrial emissions — because a compliance number that can't survive diligence isn't a number, it's a liability.

📞India: +91 98494 74570
📞UK: +44 077681 78071
PA
Parul Agarwal
Co-founder & Compliance Head

Parul is a Company Secretary with deep expertise in assurance, governance and regulatory compliance — the evidence discipline at the heart of the platform. She leads regime architecture and verification readiness at Verionex: how a plant-floor measurement becomes a record a verifier signs and a regulator accepts, without a single weak link in between.

📞India: +91 92901 26919
📞UK: +44 075501 23326
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Exporters don't have a calculation problem — they have a trust problem. The buyer, the verifier and the regulator each need to believe the same number. We built Verionex so one record, captured once at the plant, can carry that trust everywhere it has to go.

VR
Vivek Rungta
Founder & Managing Director, Verionex

Know your number
before your buyer asks.

The CBAM Exposure Diagnostic quantifies your default-value exposure across your EU order book — routes, products, precursors — and maps the path to a verified record. Three weeks. Fixed fee, credited against the full programme.

Confidential. No obligation. vivek@verionex.com · parul@verionex.com