# Which sectors are approved for the CCTS offset mechanism in phase 1 and phase 2?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-approved-sectors-phase-1-2

BEE's September 2024 memorandum lists six phase 1 sectors: energy, industries, waste handling and disposal, agriculture, forestry and transport. Phase 2 adds four more: construction, fugitive emissions, solvent use, and carbon capture, utilisation and storage, making ten sectors in all.

## Phase 1 sectors and the example technologies BEE gives

- Energy: green hydrogen by electrolysis or from biomass, renewable energy with storage, offshore wind, compressed biogas, a more efficient lime kiln.
- Industries: green ammonia use, feed switch in integrated ammonia-urea plants.
- Waste handling and disposal: biochar, landfill gas capture.
- Agriculture: systematic rice intensification, biochar, agroforestry.
- Forestry: afforestation, institutional forestry.
- Transport: modal shift, electric vehicles and buses.

## Phase 2 examples

- Construction: limestone calcined clay cement (LC3).
- Fugitive emissions, from fuels and from industrial gases: CF4 reduction in semiconductor plants, recovery and use of gas from oil fields.
- Solvent use: no example technology listed.
- Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, and other removals: post-combustion CCS.

## A sector is not a methodology

A project also needs an approved methodology. BEE's list had 12 methodologies on 7 July 2026, so many technologies named above still have no method to register under.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads the invoices behind energy and fuel projects; it does not decide sector eligibility.

- [Approved CCTS methodologies](https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-approved-methodologies)
- [CCTS offset registration steps](https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-project-registration-steps)
- [Can an MSME earn CCTS credits](https://senseible.earth/answers/ccts-offset-mechanism-can-msme-earn-credits)

Sources: [BEE Office Memorandum No. 45/02/NMEEE/Energy Efficiency-CCTS/2024, Approved Sectors in Offset Mechanism (20 September 2024)](https://beeindia.gov.in/WriteReadData/RTF1984/RTF-PDF-4edb9be54a4b43e6_1776057028.pdf), [BEE, Detailed Procedure for Offset Mechanism under CCTS, Version 1.0 (effective 27 March 2025)](https://beeindia.gov.in/WriteReadData/RTF1984/RTF-PDF-dd26de202535b101_1776055896.pdf), [BEE, Methodologies and Tools under Offset Mechanism (list updated 7 July 2026)](https://beeindia.gov.in/view_content.php?lid=571&lang=1)

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.