{"id":87022,"date":"2019-11-06T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:45:24","slug":"economic-slowdown-will-lighten-indias-carbon-burden-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/economic-slowdown-will-lighten-indias-carbon-burden-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic slowdown will lighten India\u2019s carbon burden: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> According\nto an analysis published in Carbon Brief, carbon dioxide emissions in India are\npoised to grow at their slowest since 2001. There would only be a 2% rise from 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Factors contributing to\nslow rise in CO2 emissions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Slower\ngrowth in coal-based power generation<\/strong>: This is mainly due to fall in Industrial\ncoal use because of a slowdown in the construction sector as a response to the\neconomic slowdown.<\/li><li><strong>Rise in\nrenewables<\/strong>: Wind generation rose by 17% in the first six months of 2019\ncompared to the same period a year earlier, with solar up 30% and hydro\nincreasing by 22%<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Carbon\nfootprint:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to a report by the International\nEnergy Emissions Agency, India\u2019s per capita emissions were about 40% of the\nglobal average and contributed 7% to the global carbon dioxide burden. The U.S.\nis the largest emitter contributing 14% to global CO2 burden.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Intended\nNationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to Paris Climate Change Agreement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>reduce the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of\nits GDP by 33% to 35% by 2030 from 2005 level, <\/li><li>increase total cumulative electricity generation\nfrom fossil free energy sources to 40% by 2030, <\/li><li>create additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3\nbillion tons through additional forest and tree cover<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to an analysis published in Carbon Brief, carbon dioxide emissions in India are poised to grow at their slowest since 2001. There would only be a 2% rise from 2018. Facts: Factors contributing to slow rise in CO2 emissions: Slower growth in coal-based power generation: This is mainly due to fall in Industrial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/economic-slowdown-will-lighten-indias-carbon-burden-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economic slowdown will lighten India\u2019s carbon burden: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4751,4491],"class_list":["post-87022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-burden","tag-co2-emissions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704826502},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}