Ministry of Science and Technology
Mar 10 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

India presents a peculiar picture of greenhouse gas emission. India’s total carbon dioxide emission is fourth largest in the world after United States, China and Russia but its per capita level of emission at 1.2 tons annually is much lower than...

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