Inventory & Co-benefits Analysis of Hyderabad Action Plan for Transport Sector

Abstract:

Air pollution is a growing environmental concern in the city of Hyderabad, India, due to rapid motorization and urbanization. The increasing energy demand in the transport and industrial sectors accounts for a high carbon footprint. This paper has two main objectives. First, source identification to estimate the potential for reduction of local and global emissions in the future. In Hyderabad, under the current trends, PM10 and CO2 emissions in 2020 are estimated to increase ~50 percent as compared to 2006 levels to ~43.5 ktons and ~10.3 million tons respectively. Second, to analyze current and future control scenarios in a co-benefits framework for human health benefits and carbon savings. A methodology, to estimate the human health impacts of growing local emissions in Hyderabad, and a combination of interventions for 2010 and 2020 evaluated against the business as usual scenarios will be presented. Overall, implementing a series of interventions is expected to reduce the local and global emissions below the 2006 levels and yield an estimated ~US$ 196 million and ~US$ 492 million, in 2010 and 2020 respectively, in combined benefits of health and carbon savings.