The delhi Metro was a worldwide accepted certification insignia for carbon alleviation initiatives, in 2014, and it's also the first metro and train conformity in the division to be acknowledged with Switzerland's prestigious 'Gold Standard Foundation,'. The number of projects associated or registered with DMRC and the gold Standard Foundation so far is 4. The delhi Metro has provided numerous conferences to other indian metro projects wholly to lower carbon footprints. The selling value of the carbon credits is Rs 9.55 crore in 2012.
In just six years, carbon credits have benefited delhi Metro receive Rs 19.5 crore. In just six years, carbon has served delhi Metro to collect Rs 19.5 crore. CDM is a Kyoto Protocol-based greenhouse gas offset tool that concedes the public and private divisions in high-income nations to acquire carbon credits from low- or middle-income countries. Greenhouse gas emission-reducing schemes as part of their efforts to meet international discharge purposes under the Kyoto Protocol.
'The 2nd CDM project is endowed on the concept of modal shift,' according to a DMRC delegate reported to the media. The conception behind this project is that those who alleviate by the metro have a substantially more inferior carbon footprint than those who go by other modes of transit. The delhi Metro has so far listed four projects with the UNFCCC: modal shift, regenerative braking, solar, and MRTS PoA, all of which are global outsets.