GIS Mapping and Satellite Image Analysis
The purpose of the analysis is to highlight the extent of land use due to coal mining operations, and to drive home the point that with increasing coal mining operations, meeting one of India’s goal of creating additional carbon sinks of 2.5 billion to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through creating additional forest cover could be a daunting task.
Further, the objective of the analysis is also to show case that with energy transition, which is a shift from fossil fuel energy pathway to a renewable energy dominant pathway being imminent, many of the coal mining operations could end up becoming stranded assets. This analysis also aims at Energy and Clean Air Sector Policy Makers at the National and State Levels, Energy sector investors and bankers, Power Producers, Think Tanks and Environment NGOs, State Climate Change Departments, State Energy Department, Electricity Distribution Utilities, Environmentalists, city planners amongst others.