India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose by 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007 with the energy sector contributing over half of the emissions, according to a report published by the Indian Government’s Minstry of Environment and Forests.
India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose by 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007 with the energy sector contributing over half of the emissions, according to a report published by the Indian Government’s Minstry of Environment and Forests.
India’s emissions are up from 1.2 billion tonnes in 1994 to 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007. However India’s emissions per unit national wealth (or gross domestic product), declined by 30 per cent during this period. The country now ranks fifth globally in total GHG emissions, behind the United States, China, the European Union and Russia in 2007. The emissions of the United States and China are four times that of India in 2007.
India released its last emissions estimate in 1994. Minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, who released the new report on11 May, said India was the first developing country to release ‘updated’ estimates. You can download an article about the report here or follow the pdf link to the full report.
See Chapter 7 (p. 22) for the section on agriculture. Chapter 8 is on LULUCF. Agriculture accounts for 17.6% of India’s total GHG emissions, excluding land use change of which enteric fermentation from livestock contributed 63% and rice 20%. Overall agricultural emissions are down slightly in absolute terms from 1994 levels (334MtCO2eq as opposed to 344MtCO2eq) but substantially in relative terms owing to the growth in emissions from other sources.
Note that on a per capita basis, India's agricultural emissions are 0.29tonnes CO2eq / person / yr while in the UK it's 0.7tonnes CO2eq / person / year (FCRN calculation).
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