India's GHG emission to be below global average

India's per capita green house gas (GHG) emission in 2030 will be well below those in the developed countries in 2005, according to a report.

"This should put at rest any apprehension that the country's emission is poised for a runaway increase," says the report based on five different studies and released on Wednesday by Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

The report, which comes ahead of Copenhagen summit on climate change in December, also reinforces Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's commitment that the country's carbon footprint will be less than that of the developed nations.

India, along with China, is under intense pressure by the developed world to accept some mandatory caps on its emission of green house gases.

The five studies under the report "India's GHG Emissions Profile: Results of Five Climate Modelling Studies" says that India's per capita emission in 2030 would be between 2.77 tonnes and 5.00 tonnes of CO2e(Carbon Dioxide equivalent).

"Even in 2031, per capita emission would stay under four tonnes of CO2e which is lower than the global per capita emission of 4.22 tonnes of CO2 in 2005.

"This would mean that even two decades from now, India's per capita GHG emission would be well below the global average of 25 years earlier," the report said.