All data for year: 2023. Total GHG emissions: 3.4 billion tons CO2eq
How much is the carbon footprint of the top 10 Indian cities?
This is the question this post tries to answer.
Top 10 cities and their CO2eq emissions in million tons are provided below
- Delhi – 56
- Mumbai – 33
- Bengaluru – 23
- Chennai – 30
- Hyderabad – 14.5
- Ahmedabad – 17.5
- Kolkata – 21.2
- Pune – 11
- Surat – 27
Base data used:
GHG footprints of Indian cities – GHG footprint (Aggregation of Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of GHG’s) of Delhi , Greater Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Greater Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad are found to be 38,633.2 Gg, 22,783.08 Gg, 14,812.10 Gg, 22,090.55 Gg, 19,796.5 Gg, 13,734.59 Gg and 91,24.45 Gg CO2 eq., respectively
