Tamil Nadu
Climate Action Tracker
Data-Backed, District-Led Blueprint for Climate Action
Launch Date: 31st October 2025
Climate Action Tracker
Data-Backed, District-Led Blueprint for Climate Action Launch Date: 31st October 2025
This section presents key interventions and their targets for reducing carbon emissions in
Coimbatore district,
with approximate mitigation potential for 2030 and 2050.
| Sr. No. | Key Intervention | Activity/Target | Target for Year 2030 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2030 (ktCO2e/yr) |
Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) | Additional Target for Year 2040 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2040 (ktCO2e/yr) | Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) | Additional Target for Year 2050 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2050 (ktCO2e/yr) | Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Decarbonising the Energy Sector | |||||||||||||
| A.1 | Shift from Fossil-Fuel to RE based Captive Power Generation | Replacing/tying up PPAs for ~306 MW (335 GWh generation) fossil-fuel based Captive Power Plants (CPPs) to equivalent renewable energy capacity of ~153 MW (solar, hydro and others) by 2050. | 50% of the existing tied up capacity (equivalent RE capacity 75 MW) | 145 (3.37%) |
- | - | 30% of the balance (equivalent RE capacity 50 MW) | 228 (5.59%) |
- | - | 20% of the balance (equivalent RE capacity 30 MW) | 293 (5.59%) |
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| A.2 | Use of Electric Cookstove in Cooking | Adoption of ~3.2 lakh electric cookstoves in residential and commercial buildings by 2050 | ~ 1.4 Lakh (12% of the households) | 200 (4.64%) |
- | - | 1 lakh | 306 (7.5%) |
- | - | 0.8 lakh | 312 (5.59%) |
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| A.3 | Use of Biogas in Residential Sector (Livestock waste, Food Scaps etc) | Installing a biogas plant of approx 30000 m3/day capacity (considering 50% realization of total potential of 60000 m3/day of the district) | 20% of the target capacity | 13 (0.30%) |
- | - | 30% of the remaining target capacity | 32 (0.78%) |
- | - | 50% of the remaining target capacity | 64 (5.59%) |
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| A.4 | Replacement of diesel pumps with solar pumps for irrigation | Conversion of 4820 diesel pumpsets to solar pumps by 2030 | 40% of the target | 20 (0.46%) |
- | - | 60% of the target | 52 (1.27%) |
- | - | NA | 52 (5.59%) |
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| A.5 | Use of EV tractor and tillers for agriculture land preparation | Electrifying ~7500 tractors and tillers by 2050 | 375 | 1 (0.02%) |
- | - | 375 | 3 (0.07%) |
- | - | 6,750 | 41 (5.59%) |
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| A.6 | Replacement of DG set to renewable sourced power backup | Replacement of DG set to renewable sourced power backup | To be assessed | |||||||||||
| B | Shift to Electric Mobility The target suggested in below mentioned interventions are over and above the stock in BAU scenario. | |||||||||||||
| B.1 | Shift to EV 2 Wheeler | Replacing ~4 Lakh conventional 2W with EV by 2050. | 0.2 lakh | 10 (0.23%) |
- | - | New 2W addition by 2040: 3 lakh | 132 (3.23%) |
- | - | New 2W addition by 2050: 0.8 lakh | 194 (5.32%) |
- | - |
| B.2 | Shift to EV 3 Wheeler | Replacing ~7000 3W ICE vehicles with EV by 2050. | ~1000 | 1 (0.02%) |
- | - | New 3W addition by 2040: ~4000 | 7 (0.17%) |
- | - | New 3W addition by 2050 : ~2000 | 11 (0.30%) |
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| B.3 | Shift to EV 4 Wheeler | Replacement of ~2.1 lakh ICE commercial/private 4W with EV by 2050. | ~10,000 | 16 (0.37%) |
- | - | New 4W addition by 2040: ~1 lakh | 176 (4.31%) |
- | - | New 4W addition by 2040: ~1 lakh | 325 (9.66%) |
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| B.4 | Shift to EV Buses | Replacing ~2000 intra-district diesel buses with EVs by 2040. | 500 | 38 (0.88%) |
- | - | 1500 | 166 (4.07%) |
- | - | 0 | 166 (4.55%) |
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| B.5 | Shift to electric Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) | Replacement of ~1200 fleet trucks/lorries and other small goods vehicles with EVs by 2050. | 100 | 5 (0.12%) |
- | - | 500 | 30 (0.73%) |
- | - | 600 | 65 (1.78%) |
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| B.6 | Creation of EV Charging Infrastructure | Installation of ~550 public charging stations in total by 2050. | 50 | NA | - | - | 200 | NA | - | - | 300 | NA | - | - |
| C | Decarbonization of the Industry | |||||||||||||
| C.1 | Deep electrification in Industries (electrification of heating processes to reduce fossil fuel consumption) | Fully Electrified kiln via plasma generator for heating in cement industries by 2050 | 25% of the target | 49 (1.14%) |
- | - | 35% of the balance target | 125 (3.23%) |
- | - | 40% of the balance target | 215 (5.90%) |
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| Total Scope 1 Mitigation Potential (ktCO2e) | 498.9 (12%) |
1258 (30.82%) | - | 48.42% | - | |||||||||
| Sr. No. | Key Intervention | Activity/Target | Target for Year 2030 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2030 (ktCO2e/yr) |
Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) | Additional Target for Year 2040 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2040 (ktCO2e/yr) | Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) | Additional Target for Year 2050 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2050 (ktCO2e/yr) | Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Addition of Renewable Energy (RE) capacity to meet the domestic electricity demand at district level |
Additional RE capacity integration of ~6 GW (in addition to existing RE capacity of 0.7 GW) a. Potential Assessment for various RE sources including rooftop solar, utility scale, wind, floating solar, agro PV and others b. Installation as per assessment |
NA | 0 | - | 2 GW of the RE capacity targe | 3,066 | - | - | 4 GW of remaining capacity | 9,325 | - | - | |
| B | Energy Efficiency (EE) improvements | Installation of ~36.2 lakh 3/5 star EE ACs in residential spaces to replace old/inefficient ACs | 13.78 lakh | 138 | - | 18.71 lakh | 327 | - | - | 3.76 lakh | 365 | - | - | |
| Installation of 3/5 star EE refrigeration units up to a total of 18.71 lakh by 2050 | 18.13 lakh | 68 | - | 0.48 lakh | 70 | - | - | 0.097 lakh | 70 | - | - | |||
| Replacing existing ~60 lakh incandescent bulbs and CFL bulbs and CFL tubelights with LED in residential space by 2030 | 48.3 lakh | 2 | - | 11.7 lakh | 25 | - | - | NA | 25 | - | - | |||
| Replacing ~5 lakh street lights with LED lights by 2030 | 100% | 91 | - | NA | 91 | - | - | NA | 91 | - | - | |||
| Adoption of ~42 lakh BLDC fan by 2050 | 39.74 lakh | 3 | - | 2.44 lakh | 4 | - | - | 0.36 lakh | 43 | - | - | |||
| C | Utilizing biodegradable waste to generate electricity | Installation of waste-to-energy plant of 15 MW (the plant will require ~1029 tons waste per day) by 2030 | 100% | 92 | - | NA | 92 | - | - | NA | 92 | - | - | |
| Total Scope 2 Mitigation Potential (ktCO2e) | 302.1 | 3,582.6 | 9,919 | |||||||||||
| Sr. No. | Key Intervention | Activity/Target | Target for Year 2030 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2030 (ktCO2e/yr) |
Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) | Additional Target for Year 2040 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2040 (ktCO2e/yr) | Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) | Additional Target for Year 2050 | Annual Mitigation Potential upto 2050 (ktCO2e/yr) | Progress | Annual Mitigation Realised (ktCO2e) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | Waste Management in the region | |||||||||||||
| D.1 | Domestic Wastewater management | Set up adequate centralized wastewater treatment plants for urban | Facility to treat 166 MLD of wastewater | 1433.33% | - | - | Facility to treat 35 MLD of wastewater | 1664.07% | - | - | Additional maintenance | 1664.57% | - | - |
| D.2 | Enhancing decentralized treatment | Retrofitting unsanitary septic tanks and unlined holes in the ground with leach pit or twin-pit septic tanks at household level for 1,44,288 households | - | - | Retrofitting unsanitary septic tanks and unlined hole in the ground with leach pit or twin-pit septic tanks at household level for 25,463 households | - | - | Additional maintenance | - | - | ||||
| D.3 | Setting up Fecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) at firka level | 32 FSTPs for 32 firkas | - | - | 6 FSTPs for remaining 6 firkas | - | - | Additional maintenance | - | - | ||||
| D.4 | Increase household connections to underground drainage | 60% Households to be connected with UGD | - | - | 100% Households to be connected with UGD | - | - | Additional maintenance | - | - | ||||
| D.5 | Industrial wastewater management | Setting up of Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP) and Continuous Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) along with continuous treated effluent monitoring system | Facility to treat 20 MLD | 9 (0.20%) |
- | - | Maintenance and additional facilities as per requirement | 17 (0.43%) |
- | - | Maintenace and additional facilities as per requirement | 280.77% | - | - |
| D.6 | Solid waste management | Dry waste recycling centre | 1.32 recycling centres for 32 firkas at village level (1 per lakh population) | 5 (0.12%) |
- | - | 1.6 recycling centres for 6 firkas at village level + additional 12 recycling centres (total 32) | - | - | - | Maintenace and additional facilities as per requirement | 160.44% | - | - |
| D.7 | Composting Centres | 20 composting centres (1 per lakh population) | - | - | 12 additional composting centres (total 32) | 14 (0.34%) |
- | - | Maintenace and additional facilities as per requirement | - | - | |||
| D.8 | Stakeholder capacity building and awareness generation for holistic sustainable waste management | Ongoing initiative | - | - | Ongoing initiative | - | - | - | Ongoing initiative | - | - | |||
| Total Mitigation Potential of Waste Management | 157 (3.65%) | 197 (4.84%) | - | 210 (5.78%) | - | |||||||||
| E | Green Spaces and Carbon Sequestration | |||||||||||||
| E.1 | Restoration and conservation of existing forest area and tree cover | Maintaining the current carbon stock densities to ensure the carbon sequesteration of -170.8 kt CO2e per year | Strengthening protection around existing reserved forest areas with additional measures of protection like: strengthening the fencing; eliminating encroachment; levying penalty on defaulters; etc. | 0.23 (0.01%) |
- | - | Strengthening protection around existing reserved forest areas with additional measures of protection like: strengthening the fencing; eliminating encroachment; levying penalty on defaulters;etc.2 | 0.23 (0.01%) |
- | - | Strengthening protection around existing reserved forest areas with | 0.23.01% | - | - |
| E.2 | Promoting social and agroforestry in land classified as barren or fallow, land put to non-agricultural uses of cultivable waste land | Social and agroforestry in 16749 ha of land (~9% of 191615 ha) In the subsequent years, continuous monitoring and maintenance of the plantations need to be undertaken | 92 (2.14%) |
- | - | Social and agroforestry in 23448 ha of land (~12% of 191615 ha) In the subsequent years, continuous monitoring and maintenance of the plantations need to be undertaken | 313 (7.67%) |
- | - | Social and agroforestry in 26798 ha of land (~14% of 191615 ha) | 59016.17% | - | - | |
| E.3 | Enhancing Carbon stock density | Enhancement of carbon stock density by ~1% increase from 82.25 t/ha to 83.25 t/ha | 179 (4.16%) |
- | - | Enhancement of carbon stock density by ~3.35% increase from 82.25 t/ha to 85 t/ha | 126 (3.08%) |
- | - | Enhancement of carbon stock density by ~5.5% increase from 82.25 t/ha to 86.76 t/ha | 1263.45% | - | - | |
| Total Mitigation Potential of Waste Management | 271 (6.31%) | 439 (10.76%) | 716 (19.63%) | |||||||||||
| F | Sustainable Agriculture Practices | |||||||||||||
| F.1 | Promote modern cultivation techniques to optimise agricultural inputs and maximise outputs | Use of organic fertilizer and compost in place of urea in agricultural production | 15% agriculture area transitioned to organic fertilizer | 11 (0.26%) |
- | - | 45% agriculture area transitioned to organic fertilizer | 32 (0.79%) |
- | - | 75% agriculture area transitioned to organic fertilizer | 51 (1.40%) |
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| F.2 | Use of nano urea in place of urea in agricultural production | 30% of urea requiremnt met through nano urea | - | - | 55% of urea requiremnt met through nano urea | - | - | 25% of urea requiremnt met through nano urea | - | - | ||||
| F.3 | Capacity building programmes can be conducted through Krishi Vigyan Kendra for creating awareness on climate resilient practices | Can be an ongoing initiative | NA | - | - | Can be an ongoing initiative | NA | - | - | Can be an ongoing initiative | NA | - | - | |
| F.4 | Establish local network of mini weather monitoring stations to monitor rainfall and temperature as well as to be able to forecast extreme weather conditions - this can help inform farmers of appropriate sowing, harvesting and irrigation timings | 32 mini weather monitoring stations | NA | - | - | 6 mini weather monitoring stations | NA | - | - | Additional maintenance | NA | - | - | |
| F.5 | Livestock management | Feed inputs for livestock - Tamarin plus and Harit Dhara and balanced rationing to reduce methane emissions from enteric fermentation. Implemetation of GOBARdhan scheme for manure management | Balanced rationing introduced in 30% and improved feed supplemts like Harit Dhara and Tamrin plus in 25% of livestock . 30% reduction in manure managemnt emission through GOBAR dhan scheme | 22 (0.51%) |
- | - | Balanced rationing introduced in 60% and improved feed supplemts like Harit Dhara and Tamrin plus in 50% of livestock . 60% reduction in manure managemnt emission through GOBAR dhan scheme | 42 (1.03%) |
- | - | Balanced rationing introduced in 90% and improved feed supplemts like Harit Dhara and Tamrin plus in 75% of livestock . 90% reduction in manure managemnt emisison through GOBAR dhan scheme | 601.65% | - | - |
| Total Mitigation Potential by 2030 | 33 (0.77%) | 74 (1.82%) | 111 (3.05%) | |||||||||||
