Emissions in India: 6 other nations top pre-Covid levels

Subject: Environment

Context-

UNEP has said that the world is falling short of the goals set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement adopted in 2015, and no current mechanism in place is effective enough to restrict global warming to 1.5⁰C above the pre-industrial level.

What the report said-

The UNEP report titled ‘Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls For Rapid Transformation of Societies’, has found that in India and six other top emitters, emissions have rebounded and increased after the pandemic.

Top emitters-

The top seven emitters (China, the EU27, India, Indonesia, Brazil, the Russian Federation and the United States of America) plus international transport accounted for 55 per cent of global GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions in 2020.
Collectively, G20 members are responsible for 75 per cent of global GHG emissions.

Per Capita emission-

The global average per capita GHG emissions was 6.3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) in 2020.
The US remains far above this level at 14 tCO2e, followed by Russia at 13 tCO2e,China at 9.7 tCO2e, Brazil and Indonesia at about 7.5 tCO2e, and the European Union at 7.2 tCO2e.
India remains far below the world average at 2.4 tCO2e.
For most major emitters, including China, India, the Russian Federation, Brazil and Indonesia, GHG emissions (excluding land use and forestry sectors) rebounded in 2021, exceeding pre-pandemic 2019 levels.