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Well there is, it was just negotiated and implemented extremely clumsily. Perhaps not surprising given the spread of governments and stances attending the vario
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Well there is, it was just negotiated and implemented extremely clumsily. Perhaps not surprising given the spread of governments and stances attending the various climate summits - Rio, Paris etc. Particularly of the most significant.
The developing world was given, as I understand it, to grow emissions until 2025 or 2030 and then commit to reductions and caps. Which may have been appropriate for India and China in the 80s or 90s, but hardly in the 21st century. Yet the same measure was probably about perfect for somewhere like Vietnam or Cambodia -- presuming the world never committed to honouring the obligation to subsidise the developing world past the worst and dirtiest of development. Helping a too poor to renewable India never go coal would have been the better choice - even though it would have cost the developed world actual money.