{"id":631970,"date":"2024-01-30T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631970"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:33:12","slug":"41-in-india-still-rely-on-biomass-for-cooking-emitting-340-million-tonnes-of-co2-annually-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/41-in-india-still-rely-on-biomass-for-cooking-emitting-340-million-tonnes-of-co2-annually-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"41% in India still rely on biomass for cooking, emitting 340 million tonnes of CO2 annually, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-one percent of the Indian population still uses wood, cow dung or other biomass as cooking fuel and cumulatively emits around 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the environment every year, which is about 13 per cent of India&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The report &#8220;India&#8217;s Transition to E-cooking&#8221; by the independent think tank Centre for Science and Environment also said that the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana led to a rapid expansion in access to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) in India, but it has &#8220;not guaranteed a sustained transition to clean cooking in households&#8221; that benefited from the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-one percent of the Indian population still uses wood, cow dung or other biomass as cooking fuel and cumulatively emits around 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the environment every year, which is about 13 per cent of India&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The report &#8220;India&#8217;s Transition to E-cooking&#8221; by the independent think tank Centre for Science and Environment also said that the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana led to a rapid expansion in access to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) in India, but it has &#8220;not guaranteed a sustained transition to clean cooking in households&#8221; that [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631970","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=631970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}