The BRSR Assurance & Carbon Compliance Clinic
You will not sit and listen for two days. You will bring your own data and leave with your gaps written down.
India’s only working clinic for the 500 listed companies entering BRSR Core assessment for the first time, and the obligated entities running their first full CCTS compliance year.
Places released in three waves. Wave 1 closes 31 January 2027 or when 80 Clinic places are gone, whichever is first.
Most ESG conferences send you home with a tote bag. This one sends you home with a findings list.
Three days before you arrive, you send us your numbers. Two days later you walk out with a written assessment of what your assessor will ask, what evidence you cannot produce, and what to fix first.
Clinic delegates submit their nine BRSR Core attributes under NDA three weeks in advance. On Day 2 you receive a written mock management letter: findings, evidence gaps, and the specific questions your assessment provider will raise. Prepared by an AA1000 licensed assurance provider.
The companies genuinely new to BRSR Core assessment in FY 2026-27 are ranks 501 to 1,000 — small sustainability teams, first-time engagements, no in-house GHG capability, no Big-4 retainer. Everything here is pitched at that reality, not at Nifty-50 chief sustainability officers who solved this three years ago.
Complete the post-event assessment within 30 days and you hold BRSR Core Practitioner (Assessed) — issued by RSustain Academy, with CPD hours. Something you can put on a CV and defend in an appraisal, not a PDF that says you were in the room.
The dossier
Every Practitioner and Clinic delegate leaves with a completed, company-specific pack. Not templates — your numbers, worked during the labs.
120-question assessment, completed live, with your band and ranked gaps.
Mapped to all nine BRSR Core attributes, showing which numbers you can currently substantiate and which you cannot.
Scope 1 and 2 boundary diagram, organisational boundary decisions documented, export-ready to your BRSR.
Your facility’s emission intensity against your notified sub-sector target, with the shortfall or surplus quantified (obligated entities).
Embedded emissions and indicative certificate cost for your EU-bound goods (exporters).
Every date from today to your filing, personalised to your cohort and sectors.
Plus two 45-minute office-hours calls with the RSustain assessment team in the quarter after the event. The problems you find in June are the problems you are still solving in September.
Where the rules actually stand
Every figure on this page is dated. We update it when the regulator moves, and we tell you when we last checked.
SEBI’s glide path brings the top 1,000 listed entities by market capitalisation into BRSR Core third-party assessment or assurance from FY 2026-27, the year that began on 1 April 2026. The March 2025 circular substituted “assessment or assurance” for the earlier “reasonable assurance” language and eased the value-chain requirement — a relaxation that moved the difficulty rather than removing it. The nine Core attributes still have to survive an evidence file.
Seven energy-intensive sectors transitioned from PAT into CCTS compliance from FY 2025-26, with GHG emission intensity targets notified at sub-sector level across nine sectors as of March 2026. The Indian Carbon Market Portal launched in March 2026, and CERC notified the terms for purchase and sale of Carbon Credit Certificates the same month. Shortfalls attract a statutory penalty referenced to the prevailing CCC market price.
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism moved from transitional reporting into financial obligation from 1 January 2026, with default values being phased out. Indian exporters in covered goods now need actual embedded-emissions data whether or not they are CCTS-obligated.
Your FY 2026-27 audited results are signed. Your BRSR Core assessment fieldwork is live or about to start. Your annual report is being drafted. AGM season has not begun. Your first CCTS compliance cycle has run once and you can see what broke. This is the four-week window in the year when the problems are visible and there is still time to fix them.
Regulatory position last verified: [PUBLISH DATE]. Verify current obligations against SEBI circulars, BEE procedures and your exchange before acting.
Two days. Three role-based streams. Every session produces something.
We do not run topic tracks. We run streams for the three people who actually carry this work, because a company secretary and a plant energy manager need different rooms.
Stream A: Company secretaries, ESG reporting, investor relations · Stream B: Energy managers, EHS, plant heads, export compliance · Stream C: CFOs, audit committee members, legal, heads of sustainability
| Time | Stream A · Reporting Desk | Stream B · Plant Floor | Stream C · Board Table |
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| 08:30–09:15 | Registration, data check-in, coffee — Clinic delegates confirm their submitted data set with the assessment team | ||
| 09:15–10:00 | Opening: What the first assessment cycles actually found A structured walk through recurring findings from BRSR Core engagements: where evidence fails, where methodology fails, where governance fails. No panel. One speaker, forty minutes, findings on screen. |
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| 10:00–11:30 | Lab: Score your readiness Complete the 120-question BRSR Core assessment on your own data. Output: scored readiness report and ranked gap list |
Lab: Build your GEI baseline Your facility against your notified sub-sector target. Output: baseline worksheet with quantified shortfall or surplus |
Assessment provider independence What SEBI’s rules restrict, how audit committees discharge their responsibility, and the questions to ask before appointing anyone. |
| 11:30–11:45 | Break | ||
| 11:45–13:00 | The nine attributes, evidence by evidence For each Core attribute: what document satisfies it, what does not, and what a competent assessor will reject. Output: your evidence-gap register |
MRV that survives verification Meter to ledger. Building a monitoring system that satisfies CCTS verification and CBAM reporting from one data set. |
Liability, disclosure risk and the board’s exposure What directors are signing, and what happens when a filed number turns out to be wrong. |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00–15:30 | Lab: Draw your boundary Organisational and operational boundary decisions for Scope 1 and 2, documented defensibly. Output: boundary diagram and inventory skeleton |
Lab: Estimate your CBAM exposure Embedded emissions for your EU-bound goods, indicative certificate cost, scenario range. Output: exposure estimate |
Financing the transition Sustainability-linked instruments, RBI’s framework, taxonomy alignment, and what lenders now ask for in E&S due diligence. |
| 15:30–15:45 | Break | ||
| 15:45–17:00 | The value-chain question It was eased, not removed. How to decide whether to disclose for FY 2026-27, how to state coverage honestly, and how to start collecting supplier data that will hold up when it does become mandatory. |
Sector clinic Split rooms: cement & aluminium · refining & petrochemicals · pulp, paper & textiles · chlor-alkali. First-cycle experience, sector by sector. |
Reading a BRSR like an investor What analysts and index providers actually extract from your filing, and what they conclude when a number is missing. |
| 17:15–18:00 | Clinic delegates only: one-to-one slot — 20 minutes with an assessor on your submitted data | ||
| 19:00–21:30 | Practitioners’ Dinner — capped at 90, Chatham House, seated by cohort not by seniority. No awards, no speeches. | ||
| Time | Stream A · Reporting Desk | Stream B · Plant Floor | Stream C · Board Table |
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| 09:00–09:30 | Coffee · Clinic mock management letters issued | ||
| 09:30–10:15 | Opening: What changes next Expanded assessment scope, CCTS Phase 2 sectors, ISSB adoption, digital filing. What is decided, what is consultation, what is speculation — labelled as such. |
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| 10:15–11:45 | Lab: XBRL and filing mechanics Taxonomy, the tagging errors that get filings bounced, and the workflow that prevents them. Output: a validated test filing |
Lab: Your CCTS compliance file Form A, verifier engagement, documentation trail. Output: your compliance file index with owners assigned |
Building the internal data pipeline From plant meters to board dashboard. Who owns each number, what the controls are, what breaks at scale. |
| 11:45–12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00–13:00 | Three companies, honestly Three listed companies from the 501–1,000 band walk through their first assessment cycle: what they underestimated, what it cost, what they would do differently. Under Chatham House rule if the speaker prefers. |
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| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00–15:30 | Lab: Run the validator Put your draft BRSR through automated quality checks before your assessor sees it. Output: your exception list |
Lab: Abatement and carbon pricing Marginal abatement options against CCC purchase cost. Output: a buy-or-abate comparison for your facility |
Clinic review session Walk through your mock management letter with an assessor. Clinic tier only. |
| 15:30–15:45 | Break | ||
| 15:45–16:45 | Lab: Build your twelve-month calendar Every obligation from today to your filing date, personalised. Output: your compliance calendar, exported |
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| 16:45–17:00 | Close — assessment instructions issued for the BRSR Core Practitioner (Assessed) credential. Thirty days to complete. | ||
We publish names, and we label them honestly.
Six named faculty will be published by 31 October 2026, and the full faculty by 28 February 2027. Until a speaker has confirmed in writing, this page will show them as Invited. We will not list a regulator’s name to sell a ticket.
Names published from 31 October 2026
Listed individually with status, from 31 October 2026
Practitioners who run BRSR Core engagements and CCTS verification work — the people who will read your data.
All prices exclusive of 18% GST. Group rates for five or more delegates from one organisation.
Everything in Practitioner, plus:
Places remaining: [LIVE COUNT]
Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. The hotel will be confirmed and published by 31 October 2026, with a delegate room block opened at the same time. Mumbai is where SEBI, BSE and NSE sit, and where most of the 501–1,000 cohort’s compliance teams are based.
Early June is ahead of typical monsoon onset, and we have deliberately avoided July. The venue will have covered vehicle access and be within reach of the Metro. If severe weather makes the in-person event unworkable, it runs in full hybrid and every Clinic output is still delivered on schedule — the mock management letters do not depend on the room.
Full refund on cancellation up to 30 April 2027. Fifty per cent to 20 May 2027. Name transfers free of charge at any time up to 24 hours before, including between organisations. If we cancel or postpone, you choose a full refund or a transfer to the next edition.
Provide your GSTIN at registration and a compliant tax invoice is issued within 24 hours. Purchase-order and NEFT payment supported for corporate registrations — email events@rsustain.com.
A statement we would rather make upfront
RSustain is an AA1000 licensed assurance provider and also sells advisory services and compliance software. That creates a conflict we manage explicitly rather than ignore:
Two hundred and fifty compliance decision-makers, and a rule about what money buys. Sponsorship supports the clinic and gives you visibility with a highly qualified, self-selected audience. It does not buy a platform.
Logo on materials and site. Two Practitioner Passes. Exhibition table.
Everything above. Five passes. Branded lab room. Dinner attendance for two.
Everything above. Eight passes. Named alongside the clinic. One 20-minute practitioner session, subject to editorial review — content only, no pitch.
Only Clinic delegates submit in advance. Practitioner delegates work on their own figures during the labs and can bring them in any form — a spreadsheet, a printout, or a rough estimate. Bring something. Delegates who bring nothing tell us afterwards that they got about half the value.
That is the normal starting point for a first-time cohort, and it is the reason to come. The labs are designed for incomplete data. Nobody sees your figures except you and, for Clinic delegates, the assessment team under NDA.
BRSR Core Practitioner (Assessed) is issued by RSustain Academy against a written assessment, with CPD hours stated. We are pursuing recognition with the relevant professional institutes and will publish the outcome — confirmed or not — on this page by February 2027.
No. Day 2 works on Day 1’s outputs. A single-day pass would sell you a broken product.
Yes — 50% on the Practitioner Pass, twenty places. Email events@rsustain.com.
It is not competing with them. Prakriti, WSDS and the institute conferences are where policy gets set and signalled, and you should attend them. This is where you find out whether your own filing will survive contact with an assessor. Different job.
Secure your place at the BRSR Assurance & Carbon Compliance Clinic. 8–9 June 2027, Mumbai.
If your company entered the BRSR Core cohort this year, the questions your assessor will ask already have answers — you just have not been asked them yet. Two days in June is a cheap way to find out which ones you cannot answer.
Capped at 250. Clinic tier capped at 80.