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It gets loads of attention, not least as both India and China have developed way beyond the free "developing nation" pass they got in previous climate agreement

It gets loads of attention, not least as both India and China have developed way beyond the free "developing nation" pass they got in previous climate agreements. Which plenty said was a big mistake at the time, but we are where we are. No doubt if the climate movement in China and India invite her, she might well go. Well, perhaps not China as they lack freedom of association and speech. There have been protests in HK though. I doubt there is even as much in China as in Russia. Russia has school strikes for climate consisting of one person demonstrating, changing places with another every hour or two[1]. That's because two or more demonstrating would fall foul of restrictions, as would anyone under 18. [1] (Photos, text in Cyrillic): https://twitter.com/Fridaysforfut20/status/1177674058848247810 https://twitter.com/Fridaysforfut20/status/11776740588482478...

asdfman123 7y ago
If you were a rising country coming up from behind in a world where the US dominates, would you want to reduce your growth to ensure you don't catch up to the rest of the world as quickly?
- matthewdgreen 7y ago
  You might if you were one of the nations most likely to be harmed by near-term climate change, and you were already dealing with a severe water crisis to boot. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl...
- NeedMoreTea 7y ago
  The original idea was meant to avoid that. Many of the developed nations expected to contribute some sort of levy or subsidy, and try to help developing nations short cut their way past simply repeating all of our fossil-centric development trajectory. The earliest pre-Kyoto UN talks often seemed to be thinking along those lines. Sadly some nations - especially the US - weren't willing.
cwkoss 7y ago
HK's protesting bandwidth will likely be saturated for the foreseeable future by domestic political concerns.

asdfman123 7y ago

If you were a rising country coming up from behind in a world where the US dominates, would you want to reduce your growth to ensure you don't catch up to the rest of the world as quickly?

matthewdgreen 7y ago
You might if you were one of the nations most likely to be harmed by near-term climate change, and you were already dealing with a severe water crisis to boot. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl...
NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The original idea was meant to avoid that. Many of the developed nations expected to contribute some sort of levy or subsidy, and try to help developing nations short cut their way past simply repeating all of our fossil-centric development trajectory. The earliest pre-Kyoto UN talks often seemed to be thinking along those lines. Sadly some nations - especially the US - weren't willing.

cwkoss 7y ago

HK's protesting bandwidth will likely be saturated for the foreseeable future by domestic political concerns.