{"id":414716,"date":"2021-05-13T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=414716"},"modified":"2021-05-13T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:57:55","slug":"coal-india-carbon-emissions-less-than-1-per-cent-of-indias-in-fy20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-carbon-emissions-less-than-1-per-cent-of-indias-in-fy20\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India carbon emissions less than 1 per cent of India&#8217;s in FY20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Coal India Ltd on Wednesday said that the PSU accounted for only 0.65 per cent of the country&#8217;s total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 2,616 million tonnes (MT) during FY2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>Coal India (CIL) said that this is according to the data sourced from Global Carbon Project: Carbon Di-Oxide Information Analysis Centre, of the US. <\/p>\n<p>A back-of-the-envelope calculation estimates 30 kg of CO2 emission for every tonne of coal produced. With CIL&#8217;s opencast output at 572 MT, during FY20, a little over 17 MT of CO2 equivalent was emitted out of CIL&#8217;s coal mining operations, compared to the country&#8217;s total of 2,616 MT.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution arising out of coal mining operations is not much compared to burning of the fossil fuel, from where major emissions emanate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Coal India Ltd on Wednesday said that the PSU accounted for only 0.65 per cent of the country&#8217;s total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 2,616 million tonnes (MT) during FY2019-20. Coal India (CIL) said that this is according to the data sourced from Global Carbon Project: Carbon Di-Oxide Information Analysis Centre, of the US. A back-of-the-envelope calculation estimates 30 kg of CO2 emission for every tonne of coal produced. With CIL&#8217;s opencast output at 572 MT, during FY20, a little over 17 MT of CO2 equivalent was emitted out of CIL&#8217;s coal mining operations, compared to the country&#8217;s total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}