CONTENTS1 INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 GLOBAL EMISSION SCENARIO 3 1.2 EMISSION SCENARIO IN INDIA 3 1.3 CHALLENGES AHEAD -AND NEED FOR STUDY 4 1.4 DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO ESTIMATION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION 5 1.4.1 CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN LITTER, SOIL ORGANIC AND DEAD WOOD 6 1.5 ATTEMPTS SO FAR 6 1.6 FOCUS OF THE STUDY 9 1.7 OBJECTIVES 10 2 METHODOLOGY 12 Section 1 METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION 14 Section B METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF EMISSIONS FROM VEHICLES 15 Section C METHOD FOR OVERALL ESTIMATION OF CARBON SEQUESATRATIONIN TOWN 15 Section E METHOD USED FOR PREDICTION MODEL 18 2.1 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK 20 3. OVERALL ESTIMATION OF CARBON EMISSION AND SEQUESTRATION 21 Section A EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION 21 Section B EMISSIONS FROM VEHICULAR EXHAUST 22 Section C CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN VYARA TOWN 29 4 ESTIMATION OF EMISSIONS AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION AT WARD LEVEL 35 Section A : ESTIMATION OF EMISSION AT WARD LEVEL IN VYARA 35 Section B : ESTIMATING DEMAND OF TREES FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS. 37 Section C : ASSUMTIONS 39 5 PREDICTION METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF EMISSION 41 Section A PREDICTION METHOD FOR ESTIMATION 41 6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 47 REFERENCES 49 APPENDIX 52