Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Indian States: An Update

Abstract

This paper is an updated version of Ghoshal, and Bhattacharya. (2008). Data for emission for Indian States has been updated till 2008. Further to what was noted in that paper it is observed that the growth in pollution caused by COB2B emission has decreased in all the major states of India in 1990s compared to the 1980s. Again it bounced back in the twenty-first century in many major states. Although the top three emitting states remained the same in the extended series, Madhya Pradesh has replaced Uttar Pradesh as the highest emitter in the new series. Some major states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been able to reduce their annual growth in emission in the years after 2000.The trend growth rates for these three states had fallen below the national average in the extended series. The inverted-U shape of the pollution-income relationship remains with only two high income states contributing to the bend back.