A billion times anything ... is huge!

Jayanthi Natarajan has done what she set off to Durban to do, made the point that India has a very small carbon footprint. With around 17% of the world’s population, we contribute only around 5% of its CO2 emissions.* The US numbers are almost exactly reversed: around 5% of the world’s population and around 18% of its CO2 emissions. India’s numbers are also much more healthy than China’s, which accounts for 20% of the world’s population and 24% of its emissions. But an 85-strong alliance of the world’s most vulnerable countries is not buying into our “small” rhetoric. Why can’t they see our point of view?

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