GREENSUTRA COMPLIANCE GUIDES

Compliance Guides

In-depth, source-referenced GreenSutra guides to the regulations shaping sustainable trade: EU carbon, deforestation, packaging and product-passport rules, plus carbon footprinting, life cycle assessment and ESG reporting. Each guide is an interactive knowledge hub built for exporters and sustainability teams.

Editorial illustration of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: a faceless dock worker and an EU customs officer stand at a port border on either side of a cargo container glowing with amber light, with a container ship at sea, the European Union ring of twelve stars, and an industrial skyline.

CBAM Compliance GuideThe Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in depth: embedded emissions, MRV methods, the deadline calendar, the payable share and the six covered goods with their CN codes.Read the guide

Editorial diagram of the EUDR due diligence path: a faceless ranger and farmer at a forest and plantation boundary in India, a glowing geolocation pin over the plot, and a deforestation-free cargo route crossing to a twelve-star European Union arch into the EU market.

EUDR Compliance GuideThe EU Deforestation Regulation in depth: the seven covered commodities, plot geolocation with GeoJSON and WGS-84, TRACES due diligence and India low-risk benchmarking.Read the guide

Editorial diagram of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation: a faceless worker stands amid recyclable cardboard cartons and plastic bottles on a dockside, a glowing recycling symbol at the centre, beneath a twelve-star European Union arch and a crescent moon.

EU PPWR Compliance GuideThe Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in depth: the deadline calendar, recycled-content and recyclability thresholds, PFAS limits and the EU Declaration of Conformity.Read the guide

Editorial night illustration of the Digital Product Passport: a faceless worker scans a glowing machine readable data carrier rising from a product on a plinth, a faceless customs official stands by the European Union registry building, beneath an arch of twelve gold stars.

Digital Product Passport GuideThe Digital Product Passport in depth: the ESPR framework, the EU battery passport, the data carrier and GS1 Digital Link, who is responsible and the product-group timeline.Read the guide

Editorial night illustration: a faceless analyst before an industrial facility with chimneys, three coloured emission streams for Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 rising and being measured at a gauge toward a net-zero horizon glow

Carbon Footprint GuideCarbon accounting in depth: the GHG inventory, Scope 1, 2 and 3, how a company footprint is calculated, carbon neutral versus net zero, the standards and verification.Read the guide

Editorial illustration of a product life cycle as a glowing amber loop on a teal-green night scene: a mound of mined raw material, a factory with a chimney, a recycling bin and a sealed product, arranged around a circular cradle-to-cradle journey, with a single faceless figure standing at the centre contemplating the loop.

Life Cycle Assessment GuideLCA in depth: the four ISO 14040 phases, the boundary approaches, LCA versus EPD versus product carbon footprint, EN 15804, software and databases and the impact categories.Read the guide

Flat editorial illustration of an ESG framework: three classical pillars on a dark plaza under a deep teal-green night sky, the left pillar crowned with an environmental leaf, the centre pillar with two faceless human silhouettes for the social pillar, and the right pillar with a governance balance scale in a colonnaded portico, while a faceless analyst reads a glowing report sheet that casts a warm amber light pool, beneath an arc of golden European Union stars.

ESG Reporting GuideESG reporting in depth: the weighted pillar method, materiality and double materiality, the BRSR, GRI, ISSB and ESRS standards compared, SEBI rating providers and the CSRD timeline.Read the guide

EPR Compliance GuideExtended Producer Responsibility in India in depth: the PIBO roles, the six CPCB portals, how registration works, how targets are calculated, the plastic categories and EPR certificates.Read the guide

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