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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'US, EU have gobbled India's emission pie' by Anahita Mukherji

'US, EU have gobbled India's emission pie' by Anahita Mukherji

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published Published on Sep 19, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 19, 2011

That wealthy western nations have "over-polluted" the atmosphere may come as little surprise. But the degree to which they have done so is staggering.

Thanks to the enormous amount of carbon dioxide that countries such as the US and European Union have emitted over the last century, developing countries such as India and China will never be able to emit even a fraction of carbon dioxide they are entitled to in order to industrialize. A recent research by scientists who have worked closely with the ministry of environment and forests has attempted to quantify the extent to which developed countries have occupied the atmospheric carbon sink.

According to a paper titled Equitable Access to Sustainable Development: An Indian Approach, while the US is entitled to emit 30.95 giga tonnes of carbon (GtC) into the atmosphere over two centuries from 1850 to 2050, by the year 2000 it had already emitted 81.57 GtC.

In other words, from the year 2000-2050, it should, ideally emit -50 GtC (minus 50GtC). Meanwhile the EU has overused its entitlement by nearly 25 GtC, while Russia has done so by 7 GtC.

The paper has been authored by Professor T Jayaraman, chairperson of the Centre for Science, School of Habitat Studies, Technology and Society at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences along with his colleagues Tejal Kanitkar and Mario D'Souza, also from the centre. The paper says that "countries have contributed differentially to the problem of global warming. Hence their respective responsibilities to protect the climate system are not the same but are varying."

It goes by the 'per capita emissions' philosophy, which believes every human being is entitled to an equal share of the global atmospheric carbon sink. So the emissions per country are calculated on the basis of its population. The paper points out that if global warming is to be kept in check, the global temperature rise should not exceed 2 degrees by 2050.

Keeping this in mind, the quantity of carbon dioxide emission over this half century should not exceed 1440 giga tonnes of CO2. This works out to 393 giga tonnes of carbon.

The Times of India, 19 September, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/US-EU-have-gobbled-Indias-emission-pie/articleshow/10034964.cms


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