Growth and CO2 Emissions: How Does India Compare to Other Countries?

The key question therefore is what India, as a member of the global community which is to collectively address the global challenge of climate change, can be expected to do?and what it has been already doing?to grow and meet is energy needs in a “low carbon” manner compared to reasonable international benchmarks. It is in this context that this paper assesses India’s CO2 performance over a 10-year period and compares it with that of other developed and developing economies. Specifically, it analyzes in detail data from 1994 to 2004 for 70 countries using a decomposition technique, and complements this analysis with a review of available future projections (from recent studies by reputed international research groups) to 2030 or 2050.