A Study of Emissions at Global Level and India’s Emission Mitigating Goals

At the present scenario India exhibits multi dimensional changes such as rapid growth in

renewable energy, appreciable reductions in coal imports as well as coal-fired “ultra-Mega

power projects” which undoubtedly indicates transformation India’s energy supply sector

towards low carbon path. The ongoing growth of renewable energy and slowdown of coal

in India is the most important development underway globally today coupled with China

reducing its coal and carbon dioxide emissions. India ratified the Paris Agreement On 2

October 2016, India’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets to lower the

emissions intensity of GDP by 33%–35% by 2030 below 2005 levels. The projections on the

basis of currently implemented policies brings forth that the share of non-fossil power

generation capacity will reach 38–48% in 2030, corresponding to a 25–31% share of

electricity generation, and India’s emissions intensity in 2030 will be 42–45% below 2005

levels. The new analysis finds global fossil fuel emissions grew by 0.7% in year 2014, then

held steady in year 2015. Provisional data for the year 2016 predict a very small rise, of

just 0.2%. This is a noteworthy slowdown in emission growth, compared to an average rate

of 3.5% in the 2000s and 1.8% over the most recent decade, 2006-2015. Over the last

decade, the average emissions from fossil fuels and industry account for 91% of humancaused

CO₂ emissions, with 9% coming from land use change. Out of the 9.9bn tones of

carbon in the form of CO₂ emitted from fossil fuels in 2015, 41% emitted from coal, 34%

from oil, 19% from gas, 5.6% from cement production and 0.7% from flaring. In this

background the paper on the basis of secondary data and reports studies the climate

change goals for India.