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NASA Report states India is the largest emitter of Sulphur Dioxide
Report based on NASA's data says India to be the biggest emitter of Sulphur Dioxide in the World
A new report prepared by Greenpeace India, using NASA data shows that India is the largest emitter of Sulphur dioxide in the World.
Indian Scenario:
- India is the largest emitter of Sulphur dioxide in the world, with more than 15% of all the anthropogenic sulphur dioxide hotspots detected by the NASA OMI satellite.
- It is because the majority of coal-based power plants in India lack fuel-gas desulphurisation (FGD) technology to reduce air pollution.
- The Union Ministry of Environment introduced, for the first time, sulphur dioxide emission limits for coal-fired power plants in December 2015.
- But the deadline for the installation of fuel-gas desulphurisation (FGD) in power plants has been extended from 2017 to 2022.
- The Singrauli, Neyveli, Talcher, Jharsuguda, Korba, Kutch, Chennai, Ramagundam, Chandrapur, and Koradi thermal power plants or clusters are the major emission hotspots in India.
Global Scenario:
The largest sulphur dioxide emission hotspots have been found in Russia, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Serbia.- Of the world's major emitters, China and the United States have been able to reduce emissions rapidly by switching to clean energy sources and enforcement for sulphur dioxide control.
