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India Water Sector GHG & CO2 Emissions

by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Aug 25, 2024 | India GHG Analytics

All data for 2023.

Total GHG Emissions for India (CO2eq): 3.4 billion tons.

Total Water Sector Emissions:

Total emissions: 70 million tons (CO2eq)
Proportion of total GHG emissions: approx 2%

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Support data and other highlights

30-130 million tons CO2 emissions for groundwater pumping https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018EF000939

2% (global, water utilities contribution, both moving water and treating wastewater) https://www.xylem.com/en-in/making-waves/water-utilities-news/towards-net-zero-emissions-how-the-water-sector-is-rewiring-for-a-zero-carbon-future/

About Narasimhan Santhanam (Narsi)

Narsi, a Director at EAI, Co-founded one of India's first climate tech consulting firm in 2008.

Since then, he has assisted over 250 Indian and International firms, across many climate tech domain Solar, Bio-energy, Green hydrogen, E-Mobility, Green Chemicals.

Narsi works closely with senior and top management corporates and helps then devise strategy and go-to-market plans to benefit from the fast growing Indian Climate tech market.