India's per capita emissions less than half of global average in 2022, US tops the list: Report
World | Dec 05, 2023, 07:11 PM ISTThe US is also the biggest CO2 emitter since the Industrial Revolution. Over the entire period 1850–2022, the US' cumulative emissions amounted to 115 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (Gt C) (24 per cent of the world total), the EU's to 80 Gt C (17 per cent) and China's to 70 Gt C (15 per cent).