India to become third biggest CO2 emitter by 2015
Pastor Dale Morgan
*India to become third biggest CO2 emitter by 2015*
9 Nov, 2007, 0640 hrs IST, PTI
LONDON: India will become the third-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide by
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% of the increase in global
primary energy demand through 2030, when the world’s energy needs are
expected to be well over 50% higher than they are today,” 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.