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| February 10, 2006 |
Current Science - Special Section: Climate Change and India |
1. Climate change, sustainable development and India: Global and national concerns
Jayant Sathaye, P. R. Shukla and N. H. Ravindranath
2. Greenhouse gas emissions from India: A perspective
Subodh Sharma, Sumana Bhattacharya and Amit Garg
3. High-resolution climate change scenarios for India for the 21st century
K. Rupa Kumar, A. K. Sahai, K. Krishna Kumar, S. K. Patwardhan, P. K. Mishra, J. V. Revadekar, K. Kamala and G. B. Pant
4. Climate change impact assessment on hydrology of Indian river basins
K. Gosain, Sandhya Rao and Debajit Basuray
5. Impact of climate change on forests in India
N. H. Ravindranath, N.V. Joshi, R. Sukumar and A. Saxena
6. Sea level changes along the Indian coast: Observations and projections
A.S. Unnikrishnan, K. Rupa Kumar, Sharon E. Fernandes, G. S. Michael and S. K. Patwardhan
7. Climate change and malaria in India
Sumana Bhattacharya, C. Sharma, R. C. Dhiman and A. P. Mitra
8. Assessing vulnerability to climate change: The link between objectives and assessment
Anand Patwardhan
9. India's GHG emission scenarios: Aligning development and stabilization paths
P. R. Shukla |
| December 6 - 17, 2004 |
COP 10 Highlights |
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Climate Change and India :
Uncertainty Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Inventory Estimates
Editors
A. P. Mitra
Subodh Sharma
Sumana Bhattacharya
Amit Garg
Sukumar Devotta
Kalyan Sen
Contents
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About the Book:
The critical factors determining the quality
and reliability of a greenhouse gas inventory is directly dependent
on the type of activity data and emission factor used. The quality
of any activity data is related to the statistical reliability
of the sampling done to ascertain the level of activity. Similarly,
emission factors are more reliable if they represent country
specific conditions.
Keeping these concerns in view, an effort was made under the
aegis of India's Initial National Communication to reduce uncertainty
in GHG inventory estimates from India. Measurements were conducted
to derive GHG emission factors for some key source categories
that contribute significantly to the total national GHG inventory.
These include determination of Net Calorofic Values of different
types of coal in India, CO2 emission coefficients
for the cement manufacturing process, GHG emission from transport
sector, CH4 emission from fugitive emissions in coal
mining, N2O emissions from nitric acid production,
CH4 emission from agricultural activities such as
rice cultivation and enteric fermentation and CH4
from soild waste management.
The activity data, which have been closely scrutinised include
allocation of fuel in the road transport sector and activities
related to the land use and land cover change and forestry sector.
This book synthesizes the sectoral papers contributed by participating
experts and also suggests future activities that will strengthen
the estimates further.
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