Answer:
The Climate Change Centre J&K, a research cell working on vulnerability, adaptation,
mitigation and impacts of climate change for the Department of Ecology, Environment
and Remote Sensing J & K, has prepared this report on Emission Inventory of CO2 in
Jammu and Kashmir – A Sectoral Analysis in 2013-14. Inventory of Greenhouse Gases was
one of the high priority action proposed in the State Action Plan on Climate Change as
there is a global scientific consensus with regard to the unequivocal nature of the climate
change and its association with increasing concentration of greenhouse gas emissions is
widely established. The change in climatic condition has manifested through alteration in
frequency, intensity and spatial extent of weather and climate extremes. The range of
hydro-meteorological events include heat waves, heavy precipitation, drought,
windstorms, hailstorms, etc., have emerged as serious threats to both human and natural
systems. Such climatic variability is likely to lead to extreme condition or impacts. The
impacts over economy or sustainable development are severe when the intensity of the
event goes beyond a critical threshold in a social, ecological, or physical system, or
through interplay with any other event.
According to the large scale national assessment, Jammu & Kashmir ranking in 2012
with respect to aggregate GHG emissions in the Country was 19th
. Keeping in view the
scanty data sources quoted in such reports, this report takes into account the best
available state level activity data and mainly focuses on emissions from different sectors
such as Energy, Industry, Land-use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULCF) and Waste at
State Level.
The net Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from J&K,
that is emissions from Energy, Agriculture, Livestock and
wastes have been calculated to be 11663.89 thousand
tons of CO2 equivalents (eq) in 2013-14. Out of this,
CO2 emissions were 5141.81 thousand ton
