India’s carbon emissions rise just 0.7% in 2025, slowest growth in over 20 years amid record clean energy surge

NEW DELHI: India's carbon ​dioxide emissions grew 0.7% ​in 2025, the slowest annual ​increase in more than two decades, data from a research analysis showed, as record clean-energy additions ‌and weak ⁠power ⁠demand curbed the rise in fossil-fuel use.

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* This is a sharp slowdown ​from the growth of 4%-11% in the preceding four years, excluding the impact ​of Covid in 2020, according ⁠to an ‌analysis by the Centre ​for ​Research on Energy and Clean Air ⁠for UK-based climate website Carbon Brief.

* ​Power sector emissions fell 3.8% ​in 2025 on clean energy additions and weak electricity demand.

* India added 47 gigawatt (GW) of solar, 6.3 GW of wind, 4 GW of hydropower ‌and 0.6 GW of nuclear power in 2025.

* India's coal-fired ​power output ​dropped ⁠for the first time outside the Covid period, since 1973

* Carbon dioxide emissions went up ​slightly year-on-year in 2025, as increases from steel and cement offset fall in coal power

* In comparison, China's carbon dioxide emissions fell by 0.3% year-on-year in 2025