Unprecedented carbon dioxide emissions
- India has emitted carbon dioxide (CO2) at an unprecedented level and the power grid has become more carbon intensive, said Girish Palve, Assistant Director, Tamil Nadu Climate Change Project.
- A seminar on sustainable energy transition was held in Guindy, Chennai, on behalf of GSH India Limited.
- The seminar was held under the theme ‘Encouraging Green Engineering’
- The projects of the Indian Energy Efficiency Bureau have avoided 1.29 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from 2017 to 2023, saving Rs. 7.6 lakh crore.
- According to a report released by the United Nations, India has emitted 57,700 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2024, its highest ever.
- This is 7 percent more than the previous year.
- Coal-fired thermal power plants are responsible for more than 40 percent of this.
- Non-fossil energy capacity in the country has now reached half. However, our power infrastructure has become significantly more carbon intensive.
- The amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of electricity has increased from 0.703 tonnes to 0.727 tonnes. This is because coal-fired plants continue to operate at 65 to 90 percent, while solar and wind power plants operate at only 15 to 25 percent.
