India`s Greenhouse Emission is Cleaner than Western Countries


The government has revised India’s greenhouse gas emission estimates after 13years and has found one fact unchanged-India has one of the lowest per capita emissions of GHG gasses in the emerging economies and at merely 1.5 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per
capita it continues to be way below that of the developed countries.
                   
The GHG gas inventory is based on data for 2007 and comes more than a decade after the last which was prepared on the bases of1994 data.
                  
In 1994, Indian emissions stood at 1.23 billion tones of carbon dioxide equivalent. They saw a nearly 60%jump to 1.73billion tones of carbon dioxide equivalent. They saw a nearly 60% jump to 1.73 billion tones of carbon dioxide. But despite this leap in emissions, even in gross basis, India`s emissions continued to be nearly 1/5th of that US despite being home to nearly 17% of the world population.
                   
While the increase in emissions has been accompanied by substantial industrialization in the country, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, while realizing the report along with environment minister noted that the emission intensity of Indian economy continued to decline.
                    
The highest contributions to emissions, as expected, continue to be from the electricity production and distribution system with 37.8% of total emissions being from this sector. The emissions from energy production have increased at 5.6% on a compounded annual growth rate basis. Transport continues to be the second biggest contributor with 7.5% of the emissions arising out of the fossil fuel burnt in transportation which includes aviation, shipping, railways and road transport. Increasingly, emissions from aviation have increased substantially more when compared with other modes of transport. “The contribution of civil aviation to GHG has almost doubled”.  
                  
Overall the combined energy sector contributes 5% of the emissions, industry 22%, agriculture 17% and waste generated 3% of the annual emissions in 2007.

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