Potential emission reductions from India’s transport sector: a view from the green transportation projects under CDM.

Abstract In most populated countries like India, the need for public and private transportation is much more essential as it one of the crucial sectors that helps in the economic growth. On the other hand, it is responsible for emitting greenhouse gases and causes serious air and noise pollutions. This is due to the lack of sustainable principles and activities in the transportation sector. Hence there is a need for sustainability in the transportation sector, and it is very much essential, and the strive for achieving it should be a continuous activity. In this paper, various green transportation projects (GTP) undertaken for reducing the emissions in India’s transport sector were studied. A total of 9 projects were initiated under the clean development mechanism (CDM), contributing to the 760504.69 t CO 2 baseline emission reduction, and causing around 275799.2 t CO 2 project emissions. However, from these 9 GTP’s 501952.7 t CO 2 emissions were reduced. Average values of baseline emission, project emission, and emission reduction from 9 GTP’s were estimated to be around 84500.52 t CO 2 , 30644.36 t CO 2 , and 55772.52 t CO 2 respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]