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  India's per capita emissions less than half of global average in 2022, US tops the list: Report

  World | December 05, 2023 19:11 IST

  The 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).

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  US pollution data on Beijing blocked on mobile app

  World | November 11, 2014 10:59 IST

  Beijing: All the sky-clearing measures plus cooperation from the weather kept Beijing relatively free of air pollution for most of a seven-day Asia-Pacific conference. Then, toward the end as top leaders met, the smog crept