{"id":414755,"date":"2021-05-13T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=414755"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:24:49","slug":"coal-indias-co2-emission-0-65-of-countrys-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-indias-co2-emission-0-65-of-countrys-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India&#8217;s CO2 emission 0.65% of country\u2019s total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s largest coal producer Coal India Ltd (CIL NSE 0.63 %) accounted for 0.65% of India\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>A back-of-the-envelope calculation estimates 30 Kg of CO2 emission for every tonne of coal produced. With CIL\u2019s opencast output at 572 MTs, during FY\u201920, a little over 17 MTs of CO2 equivalent was emitted out of CIL\u2019s coal mining operations, compared to the country\u2019s total of 2,616 MTs, a senior CIL official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s largest coal producer Coal India Ltd (CIL NSE 0.63 %) accounted for 0.65% of India\u2019s 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\u2019s opencast output at 572 MTs, during FY\u201920, a little over 17 MTs of CO2 equivalent was emitted out of CIL\u2019s coal mining operations, compared to the country\u2019s total of 2,616 MTs, a senior CIL official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414755","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}