India’s CO2 Roadmap

By: Pierre Fitter on October 3rd, 2009

With only a few months to go until the Copenhagen Conference, India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh has gone into PR over-drive. At a press conference in Delhi, the minister launched a report that details exactly how much carbon India will emit by the year 2030. And he brought out two of India’s best know business and economic brains to help add weight to the event – Nandan Nilekani (who gave Tom Friedman the idea that ‘the world is flat’) and Montek Ahluwalia, the Indian planning commission’s deputy chairman. The bad news from the report is that total emissions could grow as much as 7 times their present levels. The only silver lining is that per-capita emissions will still be lesser than the global average.