India's drive to expand domestic coking coal production could significantly increase methane emissions if emissions abatement is not included in production planning, according to a report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) published on Friday, July 31.
As production increases, it is expected that with deeper underground reserves of coking coal, the intensity of methane emissions will increase, creating a growing and largely ignored climate risk, the report says. отчете.
Methane emissions from coking coal are concentrated in India. Seven mines account for 81 percent of the emissions from the 30 active mines that were monitored, almost all of them located in the eastern state of Jharkhand. The report says that targeted reduction of methane emissions in this small number of countries and the implementation of methane emission management measures can achieve rapid and cost-effective emission reductions while avoiding long-term emission controls..
About 87 percent of Indian coal mine methane emissions from coking can be reduced by less than $20 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent. This is consistent with global estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA), demonstrating that costs should not be an obstacle to reducing methane emissions.
India should also prioritize reducing demand for coking coal in Steel by using an electric arc furnace (chipboard), scrap metal, and green hydrogen. In addition, the utilization of coal mine methane and coalbed methane in the steel production value chain alone can help reduce demand for coking coal and achieve steel decarbonization targets, the report says.
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