{"id":434973,"date":"2021-09-09T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434973"},"modified":"2021-09-09T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T05:43:34","slug":"mumbais-natural-carbon-sinks-inadequate-to-offset-greenhouse-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbais-natural-carbon-sinks-inadequate-to-offset-greenhouse-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai\u2019s natural carbon sinks inadequate to offset greenhouse emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s mangroves, wetlands and urban greenery outside of protected areas forest are estimated to have a combined carbon sequestration potential of about 64,000 metric tonnes (MT) per year, according to data revealed during the fifth round of public consultations for the civic body\u2019s upcoming climate action plan (CAP) for Mumbai. The public consultation, which dealt with the topic of urban greening &amp; biodiversity, was hosted by the World Resources Institute (India). <\/p>\n<p>This is, however, only a fraction of the city\u2019s annual carbon footprint. The annual carbon footprint for 2019 was estimated to be 34.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2Eq) emissions, as per a greenhouse gas inventory prepared by WRI (India) last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s mangroves, wetlands and urban greenery outside of protected areas forest are estimated to have a combined carbon sequestration potential of about 64,000 metric tonnes (MT) per year, according to data revealed during the fifth round of public consultations for the civic body\u2019s upcoming climate action plan (CAP) for Mumbai. The public consultation, which dealt with the topic of urban greening &amp; biodiversity, was hosted by the World Resources Institute (India). This is, however, only a fraction of the city\u2019s annual carbon footprint. The annual carbon footprint for 2019 was estimated to be 34.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434973","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=434973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}