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Tamil Nadu’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory
March 4 , 2024
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- The greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory was released at the inaugural of the Tamil Nadu Climate Summit 2.0.
- The report was titled ‘Tamil Nadu’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Pathways for Net-Zero Transition’.
- Tamil Nadu has seen a 84% rise in emissions from 2005 to 2019.
- It needs nearly 475 gigawatt of solar energy and 90 gigawatt of wind power to achieve net zero emissions by 2070.
- The State emitted a whopping 184 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2019.
- Of this, the energy sector contributes 77% of the GHG emissions; the industrial process and product use sector contributes 6%; the share of AFOLU sector is 12%; and the waste sector is responsible for 5% of the emissions.
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