Assessment of Green house Gas emissions in road construction in India and its reduction potentials

Anil Shimpi, PM Nalawade · 2016 · 0 citationsRead the paper

Human activities such as burning fossil fuels release Greenhouse Gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. Road transport, being the dominant mode of transport in the country, emitted 87% of the total CO2 equivalent emissions from the transport sector. Objective of the study is to calculate the GHG inventory of the road project and to find out GHG reduction opportunities. Murbad-Ahmednagar State Highway projects which are constructed & operated by ABL are considered during this study. GHG Protocol Corporate Standard was used to quantify GHG inventory. During study it is observed that the Scope 2 emissions are very negligible compared to scope 1 emissions due to use of fossil fuels which mostly consist of various machineries and vehicles used in construction and operation activities. Keywords : Greenhouse Gas Emission, Road Construction, Climate Change,

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