Goa Emissions Inventory
The Goa Emissions Inventory is a comprehensive assessment of Goa's emissions from 2012–2023 across four principal IPCC sectors Energy, Industries (IPPU), Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) and Waste.
The dashboard evaluates sectoral emissions through two principal lenses - quantity and quality. Quantity, captures sectoral total GHG emissions from various activities. Quality, reports data across four data indicators:
- Reliable — Data sourced from government sources
- Unreliable — Data is recalculated or interpolated
- Unavailable — Data is not reported
- Absent — No sectoral activity
This dashboard is aimed at policymakers and researchers primarily to highlight data gaps in emission inventory preparation with a goal to strengthen state-level emission inventory reporting. The detailed methodology behind this dashboard can be found here.
Note: Emission data is not exhaustive.
Energy
Typically the largest contributor to GHG emissions, the energy sector covers emissions from the key sub-sectors including electricity generation, transport, and residential and commercial consumption. In Goa, emissions in this sector are primarily driven by transport and residential use.
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Key Notes
- Notably, electricity emissions in Goa are missing. This is explained due to the fact that almost all of Goa's electricity is imported from neighbouring states. Goa has no fossil fuel plants. In-state electricity generation emissions arise only from the biogas plant at the Saligao Integrated Solid Waste Management Facility, with public data available from 2019.
- Manufacturing industrial emissions remain significantly lower than expected, and missing in certain years (example: 2013) and across sectors (such as Pharma and iron-ore production) where Goa has considerable activity. This is attributable to a lack of reliable data. Our dataset only contains emissions from the use of Naptha, LSHS, natural gas, lubricants and pet coke as an energy source.
Data from manufacturing peters down from 2013 because one of the largest fertiliser plants in Goa — Zuari Agro Chemicals — switched to natural gas from Naptha. - The largest share of Goa's energy emissions come from the road transport sector with diesel and petrol accounting for most fuel consumption. Civil aviation shows a strong post-pandemic rebound, while emissions from water-borne navigation mainly from the use of residual fuel oil (RFO) are also present. Notably, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) appears only from 2021, due to a lack of data.
- Energy emissions from the residential and commercial sector are mainly due to the use of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking. Data on piped natural gas is missing between 2012 to 2020 and have not been accounted for.