Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of world atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions China and India contributed in the latest period for which records are available.

There are no official emissions estimates available for recent years for many developing countries, including India and China. One widely used 3^rd party estimate is however available from the World Resources Institute CAIT dataset.

This data suggests that in 2012, the latest available year, China’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions (including land use, land use change and forestry, but excluding international aviation and shipping ) accounted for around 22% of the global total (25% for CO₂ only).

India’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions (including land use, land use change and forestry, but excluding international aviation and shipping) accounted for around 6% of the global total (5% for CO₂ only).