India, Nations With High Per Capita Emissions Can't Be Clubbed: Senior EU Official
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"It is very important to acknowledge for everybody that per capita emissions of the UAE, China and the US... they are very different from India. Many people in Europe put China and India in the same basket and sometimes even with the Gulf states which is completely unacceptable," he said.
Clubbing India with emitters like China and the US is completely unacceptable as its per capita emissions are "very low", a senior official of the European Parliament said today.
Talking to news agency Press Trust of India at the UN climate talks here, Peter Liese, a German politician and a member of the European Parliament, emphasised: "Indian people should be able to own a car when people in Germany own two cars." There have been concerted attempts to club India with major emitters like the US at climate negotiations despite its low per capita emissions.
"It is very important to acknowledge for everybody that per capita emissions of the UAE, China and the US... they are very different from India.
