Coal India’s CO2 emission 0.65% of country’s total
Country’s largest coal producer Coal India Ltd (CIL NSE 0.63 %) accounted for 0.65% of India’s total carbon-di-oxide (CO2 ) emission of 2,616 Million Tonnes (MTs) during 2019-20, according to the data sourced from Global Carbon Project: Carbon Di-Oxide Information Analysis Centre, of US.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation estimates 30 Kg of CO2 emission for every tonne of coal produced. With CIL’s opencast output at 572 MTs, during FY’20, a little over 17 MTs of CO2 equivalent was emitted out of CIL’s coal mining operations, compared to the country’s total of 2,616 MTs, a senior CIL official said.
