Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NEAA) found that greenhouse gas emissions from developed countries dropped 7% in 2009 due to the recession, but that this reduction was offset by large increases from rapidly growing China and India.
“A large part of production capacity has been suspended, but this could be re-employed as soon as the economy improves. It is likely that a recovering economy would cause emission levels in industrialized countries to go up. Nevertheless, the economic downturn has meant that these countries can meet their reduction obligations with more ease,” said NEAA spokeswoman Anneke Oosterhuis.
China and India’s average per capita CO2 emissions are still well below that of developed countries. Emissions are now 1.4 tons per person in India and 6 tons in China, compared with Netherlands’s 10 tons per person and United States’s 17 tons.
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Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NEAA) found that greenhouse gas emissions from developed countries dropped 7% in 2009 due to the recession, but that this reduction was offset by large increases from rapidly growing China and India.
“A large part of production capacity has been suspended, but this could be re-employed as soon as the economy improves. It is likely that a recovering economy would cause emission levels in industrialized countries to go up. Nevertheless, the economic downturn has meant that these countries can meet their reduction obligations with more ease,” said NEAA spokeswoman Anneke Oosterhuis.
China and India’s average per capita CO2 emissions are still well below that of developed countries. Emissions are now 1.4 tons per person in India and 6 tons in China, compared with Netherlands’s 10 tons per person and United States’s 17 tons.
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