India to become 3rd biggest emitter of carbon dioxide
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2015 and rapid economic growth of the country and its neighbour China will
have devastating consequences for the world's energy supply unless the two
Asian giants make efforts to curb demand and greenhouse gas emissions, the
International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday.
"India and China will account for around 45 per cent of the increase in
global primary energy demand through 2030, when the world's energy needs are
expected to be well over 50 per cent higher than they are today," the IEA,
an energy policy adviser for its 26-member countries, including the US and
19 European countries, said in a statement.
In its 2007 World Energy Outlook, the Paris-based agency said "How China and
India respond to the rising threats to their energy security will also
affect the rest of the world."
According to the report, China is expected to overtake the United States as
the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide this year.
IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, however, said that rapid economic
growth in China and India was a "legitimate aspiration" that would improve
the quality of life of more than two billion people and that needed to be
supported by the rest of the world.
"Indeed, most countries stand to benefit economically from China and India's
economic development through international trade," Tanaka said.
At the same time, he said "we need to act now to bring about a radical shift
in investment in favour of cleaner, more efficient and more secure energy
technologies."