Trends of green house gas emissions: Inter-sectoral analysis

Human activities, though aimed at development have always had significant impact on the environment as the seeds of destruction are present in this growth process itself, some is true for agriculture contributing towards harmful GHG emissions. This secondary data based study is aimed to analyze the trends of GHG emissions in world & India. The energy sector, followed by agriculture and industry are the major contributors towards GHG emission in global scenario with Asia region at the top. Country -wise, India is at third place after China and USA, though per capita emissions here are 60 per cent lesser than the global average. So far agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFLOU) sector is concerned, India has witnessed an increase of 25percent in GHG emissions between 1990 and 2017, mainly due to enteric fermentation, area under rice cultivation and extensive usage of synthetic fertilizers. At the same time, agriculture being a prominent victim of climate change, needs mitigation strategies like optimization in fertilizer usage, use offermented manures, rice water management, balancing the farming system to check these increasing GHG emissions.