A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN RELATION TO URBAN POPULATION, EXPORTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES AND ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION
GHG emissions continued to increase (4% per year since 2010 on average and rapid increase of 2.6% in 2019 due to forest fires) and reached a record high of 59.1 GtCO2e in 2019. Fossil CO2 emissions accounted for maximum GHG emission. G20 countries account for bulk of emissions: Top four emitters - China, US, EU+UK and India contributed 55% of the total GHG emissions in the last decade. Around two thirds of global emissions are linked to the private household activities. The emissions of the richest 1 per cent of the global population account for more than twice the combined share of the poorest 50 per cent. COVID-19 crisis offers only a short-term reduction in global emissions and will not contribute significantly to emissions reductions by 2030. The study made an attempt to find out the various correlations among urban population, Exports of goods and services and Electric power consumption and total Greenhouse gas emissions in India and to study the joint contribution of urban population, Exports of goods and services and Electric power consumption in predicting total Greenhouse gas emissions. To analyse the joint contribution of urban population, Exports of goods and services and Electric power consumption in predicting total Greenhouse gas emissions the data from 1991 to 2014 has been taken. It has been analysed through the use of SPSS software. The multiple correlation coefficient is 0.99 which is significant at 0.01 level with degree of freedom (df) = 3/20. It indicates that there is a significant joint contribution of urban population, Exports of goods and services and Electric power consumption in predicting total Greenhouse gas emissions. Thus the null is rejected.