GHG emissions from aviation almost doubled

New Delhi: The government has revised India's greenhouse gas emission estimates after 13 years and has found one fact unchanged — India has one of the lowest per capita emissions of GHG gases in the emerging economies and at merely 1.5 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per capita it continues to be way below that of the developed countries.
The GHG gas inventory is based on data for 2007 and comes more than a decade after the last one which was prepared on the basis of 1994 data.
In 1994, Indian emissions stood at 1.23 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. They saw a nearly 60% jump to 1.73 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. But despite this leap in emissions, even on gross basis, India's emissions continued to be nearly 1/5th of that US despite being home to nearly 17% of the world population.
Interestingly, emissions from aviation have increased substantially more when compared with other modes of transport. "The contribution of civil aviation to GHG has almost doubled," Ramesh pointed out while detailing the report.
The highest contributions to emissions, as expected, continue to be from the electricity production and distribution systems with 37.8% of total emissions being from this sector. The emissions from energy production have increased at 5.6% on a compounded annual growth rate basis. Transport continues to be the second biggest contributor with 7.5% of the emissions arising out of the fossil fuel burnt in transportation which includes aviation, shipping, railways and road transport.
12/05/10 Times of India

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