India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > Reports and Documents > Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Contribution of agriculture sector to green house gas emissions, 21/12/2015 > Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Contribution of agriculture sector to green house gas emissions, 21/12/2015

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Contribution of agriculture sector to green house gas emissions, 21/12/2015 [1]

Question raised in Rajya Sabha Contribution of agriculture sector to green house gas emissions, 21/12/2015. As per a report on ‘India: Greenhouse Gas Inventory-2007’, the net Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from India in 2007 with Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) were 1727.71 million tons of CO2 equivalent (eq). Out of which, CO2 emissions were 1221.76 million tons, Methane (CH4) emissions were 20.56 million tons; and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) emissions were 0.24 million tons. GHG emissions from Energy sector constituted 58%, Industry sector constituted 22%, Agriculture sector constituted 17%, Waste sector constituted 3%, Electricity sector constituted 37.8%, Transport sector constituted 7.5%, Cement sector constituted 6.8%, Iron & Steel constituted 6.2% of the net CO2 eq emissions.

Publication Date: 
21/12/2015
Rajya Sabha [2]
Tags:
Green House Gases [3], Agriculture [4], India [5], Parliament [6], Climate Change [7]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/question-raised-rajya-sabha-contribution-agriculture-sector-green-house-gas

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/question-raised-rajya-sabha-contribution-agriculture-sector-green-house-gas
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/rajya-sabha
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/parliament
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change