Measuring CO2 emissions solely against production unfair for developing countries
Published 2021/05/25 Calculating CO2 emissions solely on the basis of production “disproportionately” penalizes developing countries which quite naturally have a higher carbon content in their economic structures, a renowned U.S. expert has said. “What I am hoping for rather is consumption-based accounting of emissions also being brought to the fore as a means to calculate emissions reduction targets,” Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for China-America Studies, […]