Better accounting of greenhouse gas emissions from Indian coal mining activities — A field perspective.

Fugitive methane emissions from coal mining activities have been frequently talked about in the literature due to concerns about climate change. However, indirect and direct CO₂ emissions may also result from coal mining processes. The indirect CO₂ emissions include those from diesel combustion from equipment while direct CO₂ emissions are a relatively new area of research and have been recently brought into the purview of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) inventory guidelines. We discuss some of the preliminary results which can give some directions into the potential research areas for better accounting of greenhouse gas emissions from coal mining activities. These have been derived from practical studies undertaken at selected coal mines in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]