India Aviation Industry GHG & CO2 Emissions
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What are the greenhouse gas emissions from India’s aviation industry? This page from India GHG Analytics section of EAI provides an analysis.
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All data for 2023.
Total GHG Emissions for India (CO2eq): 3.4 billion tons.
Total Aviation Industry Emissions:
- Total emissions: 25-30 million tons (CO2eq)
- Proportion of total GHG emissions: 0.7%
It is fairly easy to get total emissions for the aviation sector. Get the total amount of aviation turbine fuel used, and well, you are there.
India uses about 9 million tons of ATF per year (source). A ton of ATF emits about 3 tons of CO2 during its use.
Well, that gives you total emissions of about 27 million tons of CO2 per annum. Airports emit about 10% of total CO2 emissions from the aviation sector, so the total emissions from the sector is about 30 million tons.
Support data:
https://sansad.in/getFile/loksabhaquestions/annex/177/AU3173.pdf?source=pqals – from this link, while the amount had gone down dramatically in 2020 owing to COVID, you can see that by 2019, it had reached about 20 million tons of CO2 emissions according to submissions in the Indian parliament. Going with a 5% growth rate, this gives an estimate of about 24 million tons for 2023. So, a range of 23-30 million tons of CO2 emissions per year seems to be a decent estimate for the Indian aviation sector.
Global emissions – Globally, aviation contributed to about 2% to total CO2 emissions (IEA). Given that India’s aviation travel intensity is likely to much lower than global average, an estimate 0.7-1% of total appears to be aligned to trends.
Narsi (Aug 28, 2024).
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