India at top in Emissions related to Crop Burning

Highlights:

• According to the Climate tech start-up, Blue Sky Analytics report, India has been ranked at the top position on emissions related to crop burning.
• As per report, India accounted for 13 % of total global emissions in the period of 2015-2020.
• Report notes a 12.2 % contribution by India towards the cropland fire emissions in 2020 alone.
• The data highlights the new insights into recent trends in biomass fires, including emissions from crop residue and forest residue fires in India.
• For instance, data in report verifies the downward trend of crop fires between 2016 and 2019.
• As per report, GHG emissions due to cropland fires has reduced by 11.39 % in between 2016-2019.
• In between 2019-20, GHG emissions has increased by 12.8 %.
• As a result of this, India’s global contribution has become 12.2 %.
• Blue Sky Analytics is the Indian Climate tech start-up. 
• It was founded by an IIT alumnus. 
• It is a part of global coalition called “Climate TRACE”.

• Climate TRACE is a global coalition that works on the mission of accelerating climate action by providing near-real-time and independent high-resolution GHG emissions data.
• Innovative approach followed by Climate TRACE fills critical knowledge gaps for all the countries, which also rely on patchwork system of self-reporting.

• Emissions estimates provided by Blue Sky Analytics cover fires caused by human activities.
• It includes burning in forest areas to convert it into agricultural land or crop residues.
• It also covers fires caused by wildfire activity.
• It prepared report by combining multiple satellite data sources.