Does a CPCB red category factory have high carbon emissions?

Not necessarily. CPCB colour categories rank industries by pollution potential, such as air and water pollutants and hazardous waste, not by greenhouse gases. A red category unit may have modest CO2, and a green category unit with a big boiler or many kilns can emit more. Measure CO2 from your fuel and power bills.

What the colours mean

• Red, orange, green and white come from a pollution index set by CPCB.
• They decide consent conditions and inspection frequency.
• They say nothing about your Scope 1 and 2 total.

What buyers and lenders ask instead

They ask for tonnes of CO2e from fuel and electricity, with the documents behind them, and sometimes for Scope 3.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

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Sources: Central Pollution Control Board, GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.