Increase in production-based emissions due to increased trade

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India’s carbon emissions increased in the last 10 years due to the increase in production-based emissions rather than consumer-based emissions. Our World in Data analyzed the data and said that India’s production-based carbon emissions increased by 63 per cent to 2.6 billion tonnes in 2009 from 1.6 billion tonnes in 2009.

However, consumer-based emissions increased by 61.7 per cent to 2.5 billion tonnes from 1.5 billion tonnes during the period under review. This shows that India increased carbon emissions to create production for other countries. Therefore pollution was inevitably imported in exchange for capital to raise the standard of living at the domestic level.

The increase in pollution in India draws attention because of the UN’s call on Monday to control pollution. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called for cutting global emissions to control climate change. In this sequence, the European Union has imposed carbon tax on polluting products on Tuesday.

On the other hand, consumer-based emissions are more in developed countries. This means that they consume more goods than they produce in terms of a percentage of domestic product emissions imported or exported. It is 41 per cent in UK, 19.2 per cent in Germany and 13 per cent in Japan.

Although in India it is negative 6.1 percent. This indicates that the consumption in India is less than the production emissions. Similar negative figures are found in China (negative 7.3 percent) and Russia (negative 18.5 percent). Russia’s statistics show that it exports more energy-related products.

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