Clubbing India with emitters such as China and the U.S. is completely unacceptable as its per capita emissions are "very low", a senior official of the European Parliament said on December 9.
Talking to PTI at the United Nations (UN) climate talks in Dubai, 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 such as the U.S. 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 U.S.... they are very different from India.
