India’s emissions up 4.6% in 2016-19, new climate plans show

Indias total emissions increased by 4.56% in 2019 compared to the 2016 levels, and have nearly doubled since 2000, the third national communication and first adaptation communication cleared by the Union Cabinet for submission to the UNFCCC has indicated.P)..

According to the national communication, which reports greenhouse gas emissions for 2019, the energy sector contributed the most to the overall anthropogenic emissions (75.81%), followed by the agriculture sector (13.44%), Industrial Process and Product Use (IPPU) sector (8.41%), and waste (2.34%)..

This shows that India has successfully continued to decouple its economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in the reduction of the emission intensity of its GDP by 33% between 2005 and 2019, the report added..

The national communication is submitted to UNFCCC every four years since entering the Convention and captures national circumstances, emissions, vulnerability, greenhouse gas inventory, capacity and finance needs, among others..

The fact that in spite of the economic growth effect emissions intensity decline has been beyond expectations shows that Indias efforts on ramping up renewable energy capacity and energy efficiency have been truly phenomenal, said Vaibhav Chaturvedi, a fellow at Council on Energy, Environment and Water, said..

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