On March 23, 2026, the Union Power Minister Manohar Lal launched the Indian Carbon Market Portal and announced that formal Carbon Credit Certificate trading would begin within four months. That was not a policy paper. That was a government official naming a live deadline for a market that is already legally operational. It almost sounds futuristic, but India's version is already running, it covers specific named companies, it is backed by enforceable penalties, and it is goin