India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose 4.2 per cent to 1.3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent compared with 1994 levels.
In 2007, the country’s GHG profile has been estimated at 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
These details are part of India’s Second National Communication report submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat on GHG inventory.
The first communication was submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat on June 22, 2004, towards the fulfilment of its obligation to furnishing information on implementation of the Convention.
Releasing the report here on Wednesday, the Minister of Environment and Forests, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, said India was fully committed to its responsibilities towards the global community, and added that so far it had voluntarily reduced carbon emission.
The report includes results of wide ranging national-level studies and provides details of climate change scenarios and its impacts on key sectors, such as water, agriculture, forestry, natural ecosystems, coastal regions, human health, energy, industry and human settlements.
The energy sector accounted for 67.4 per cent of total GHG emissions, followed by agriculture at 23.3 per cent, industrial processes at 6 per cent and waste sector 3.4 per cent.
The Greenhouse Gas Inventory has been reported as per the stipulated guidelines using prescribed methodologies by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).