India's greenhouse gas emissions increased by around 60% between 1994 and 2007, a government study says. The government says that emissions grew from 1.2bn tonnes in 1994 to 1.9bn tonnes in 2007, providing India with the unenviable title of one of the world's biggest emitters.
The rapid increase in emissions has been blamed on the growth of industries such as cement production, electricity and transport as India’s economy surges.
Importantly, India did not sign up to binding targets at the climate change talks in Copenhagen last year.
However, India’s per capita emissions are far lower than that of most industrialised nations and its Environment Minister has argued that its emissions are not comparable with those of the US and China. "The emissions of the United States and China are almost four times that of India in 2007," he told the AFP news agency.
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