{"id":647023,"date":"2025-09-19T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647023"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:24:53","slug":"indias-power-sector-co2-emissions-fall-for-only-2nd-time-in-50-years-study-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-sector-co2-emissions-fall-for-only-2nd-time-in-50-years-study-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s power sector CO2 emissions fall for only 2nd time in 50 years: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector fell by 1 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 0.2 per cent over the past 12 months, only the second decline in nearly five decades, a new analysis showed on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for UK-based Carbon Brief, said India has contributed nearly two-fifths of the global energy sector emissions growth since 2019. In 2024, India accounted for 8 per cent of the global energy CO2 emissions, despite having 18 per cent of the world\u2019s population and per capita emissions far below the global average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector fell by 1 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 0.2 per cent over the past 12 months, only the second decline in nearly five decades, a new analysis showed on Thursday. The study, conducted by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for UK-based Carbon Brief, said India has contributed nearly two-fifths of the global energy sector emissions growth since 2019. In 2024, India accounted for 8 per cent of the global energy CO2 emissions, despite having 18 per cent of the world\u2019s population [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647023","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=647023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}