By 2030, cut per capita emission to global average: India to G20

At a time when rich nations, backed by the UN climate body, have pitched for bringing all emitters on board to commit to ‘net-zero’ emission goal or carbon neutrality by around mid-century, India has come out with a counter proposal asking them to bring down their own per capita emission to global average by 2030.
India brought this narrative on the table while making its points on the concluding day of the G20 ministerial meeting on climate change and energy on late Friday evening in Naples and even forced the participants to add this point in the presidency statement. Currently, India’s per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is around 1.96 tCO2e (tonne carbon dioxide equivalent) which is less than one-third of the world’s per capita GHG emissions (6.55 tCO2e).