{"id":438479,"date":"2021-09-27T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438479"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:06:45","slug":"dmrc-sold-3-55-million-carbon-credits-from-2012-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dmrc-sold-3-55-million-carbon-credits-from-2012-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DMRC sold 3.55 million carbon credits from 2012-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) sold 3.55 million carbon credits between 2012 and 2018, earning 19.5 crore, a DMRC spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Delhi Metro became the first metro\/railway project to be registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) by the United Nations. The CDM is a project-based greenhouse gas offset mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that allows the public and the private sectors in high-income countries to purchase carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission-reducing projects in low- or middle-income nations, as part of their efforts to meet international emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The first CDM project of Delhi Metro was based on regenerative-braking technology, and the carbon credits generated from the project till 2012 were sold for Rs 9.55 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) sold 3.55 million carbon credits between 2012 and 2018, earning 19.5 crore, a DMRC spokesperson said. In 2007, Delhi Metro became the first metro\/railway project to be registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) by the United Nations. The CDM is a project-based greenhouse gas offset mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that allows the public and the private sectors in high-income countries to purchase carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission-reducing projects in low- or middle-income nations, as part of their efforts to meet international emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol. The first CDM project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}