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 majority of coal-based power plants in India lack flue-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 flue-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.
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