To increase the reliability of India's national emissions inventory, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) must consider developing 'country-specific' emission factors using real- time measurements across all sectors. At present, many of the employed emission factors are either defaults or global estimates.

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GHGPI: Recommendations to the Government on India's Official GHG Emission Estimation Process
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This paper is part of GHG Platform India, comprising Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP); Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW); Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia (ICLEI); SHAKTI Sustainable Energy Foundation; and Vasudha Foundation; and World Resources Institute - India. 

 

(In addition to the CSTEP contributors mentioned/linked in this Web page, researchers from the other GHGPI partners, i.e., CEEW, ICLEI, SSEF, WRI, and Vasudha Foundation, contributed to this publication.)
 

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