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• India targets to fully covert Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep islands to Green Energy
• Not surprisingly, the national capital region of Delhi has the highest annual carbon
footprint in the country. In fact, Delhi’s annual CO2 emission of 69.4 million tonnes is
equal to the CO2 emission of Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai put together. When
it comes to per capita CO emission, Chandigarh and Vadodara are far ahead of the rest
with 3.9 tonnes and 3.5 tonnes respectively.
• A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and
indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product.” 1 It is calculated by
summing the emissions resulting from every stage of a product or service's lifetime
(material production, manufacturing, use, and end-of-life).
• Cities account for over 70% of global CO2 emissions, most of which come
from industrial and motorized transport systems that use huge quantities of fossil fuels
and rely on far-flung infrastructure constructed with carbon-intensive materials.
• In India, heatwave deaths have almost doubled over the past 20 years.
• The government has announced an ambitious target for all new vehicles in 2030 to be
electric, starting with taxis, e-rickshaws and buses and, eventually, private vehicles.
The motivations are to reduce vehicular emissions, improve air quality and reduce
dependence on foreign oil, all perfectly reasonable. But the scheme avoids asking how
cities will negotiate the rise in vehicles with the implications on other urban
objectives – such as exacerbated congestion and the need for an increased share of
public transit. Policy making has, so far, shirked from deliberating these difficult
questions.
• Carbon footprint (CF) refers to the total amount of carbon dioxide and its equivalents
emitted due to various anthropogenic activities. Carbon emission and sequestration
inventories have been reviewed sector-wise for all federal states in India to identify
the sectors and regions responsible for carbon imbalances. This would help in
implementing appropriate climate change mitigation and management strategies at
disaggregated levels.
• Major sectors of carbon emissions in India are through electricity generation,
transport, domestic energy consumption, industries and agriculture. A majority of
carbon storage occurs in forest biomass and soil. Electricity generation contributes
35.5% of total CO2 emission, which is followed by the contribution from transport.
Vehicular transport exclusively contributes 25.5% of total emission.
• This shows that small states and union territories (UT) like Arunachal Pradesh,
Mizoram and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where carbon sequestration is higher due
to good vegetation cover, have carbon status 41. Annually, 7.35% of total carbon
emissions get stored either in forest biomass or soil, out of which 34% is in Arunachal
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
• Carbon sequestration refers to the withdrawal of atmospheric carbon dioxide through
soil and trees, and storing the carbon in soil in the form of soil organic matter or as
tree biomass in trees.
• The carbon status, which is the ratio of annual carbon storage and carbon emission for
each federal state, is computed. Emission of carbon in the form of CO 2, CO and CH4
are converted into its equivalent of CO2. Global warming potential of CH4 is 21 times
greater than CO2. Emissions of CO2, CO and CH4 converted into its equivalent of CO2
was used to compute the carbon status of each state and union territory.
• Main causes of increasing carbon footprints are –
Electricity generation:
Transport
Industries:
Domestic energy
Agriculture: Agricultural residue burning
Waste: Emissions from solid waste depend on the quantity of organic waste.
• Andaman, Nicobar Islands may not be inhabitable in future due to rise in sea level
• Waves of Change: Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar transition from diesel to
renewables