Hello all –
While there is so much talk, action and investment on climate change & GHG emissions, surprisingly, I found very few well researched resources for data on these emissions, especially their break-ups. There have of course been some excellent efforts, but most of them were dated with data for or before 2018. It is quite possible that my Internet search capabilities are poor!
Anyway, during a long holiday I started working on getting some of these estimates done myself, and thus was born this series on India’s GHG emissions.
This is the anchor post for a series of blog posts that will deep dive into India’s CO2 and overall GHG emissions.
Overall GHG emissions go beyond CO2, and also include GHGs such as methane, N2O, and minor contributors such as CFCs & SF6 – though I’d hazard a guess that the last two might not add to much to India. So it would be mainly CO2, methane and N2O.
Emissions break-ups and analyses are provided on the following dimensions:
- Total emissions
- Emissions by domain (Energy, Non-energy, Process Emissions, Agri..)
- Emissions by end uses (Power, Heating, Transport…)
- Emissions by sector (Industrial, Agri, Residential..)
- Emissions by fuel source (Coal, Oil, Natural Gas)
- Emissions by industry (Top 10 GHG emitting industries)
Each of the above will be an evolving post that will deep dive into the respective domain.
I hope you find these posts useful.
If you have queries on this, please send a note to narsi@eai.in and I will try my best to help! – Narsi, EAI
Support resources:
Used many different resources, am listing some of the prominent ones:
GHG Platform India – looks quite rigorous and excellent presentations, but I think they have overestimated the contribution from energy to India’s GHG emissions by quite a bit, 7-8% and under-estimated agriculture & livestock emissions to a similar extent!
GoI data downloads – https://www.data.gov.in/keywords/emission – a massive number of data points for GHG emissions across multiple sectors and domains, but had probems downloading these at times!
Another useful link from Climate Transparency Report with many important sectoral estimates and break-ups.
