India Paper Industry CO2 & GHG Emissions
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What are the greenhouse gas emissions from India’s paper 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 Paper Industry Emissions:
- Total emissions: 35 million tons (CO2eq)
- Proportion of total GHG emissions: approx 1%
How did I arrive at this estimate? Please see the Support Data section for this.
Support data and other highlights
India’s CO2 emissions from the paper industry were about 30 million tons in 2019. India’s paper industry has been growing at a healthy 7-8% CAGR past few years, and assuming that energy efficiency measures in the paper sector could have cut down some emissions during this period, we take a 5% annual growth in CO2 emissions from the paper industry, so that would be 30*(1.05)^4, or about 36 billion tons.
1% – data from a virtual roundtable organized by TERI
Narsi (Aug 28, 2024).
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