India, Sept. 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that developing countries are often "unjustly blamed" for carbon emissions, despite India's per-capita emissions being "less than half of the global average" and those of developed countries being six times higher.

"Developing nations are unjustly blamed, despite developed nations emitting up to six times more carbon per capita than India," he said while addressing the inauguration of the International Conference on "The Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics" where he launched the NGT mobile application.

Highlighting that India is the only G20 country that has fulfilled all the commitments made at the Paris COP-21 well ahead of time, while also setting global benchmar...