That would make sense if the environmental destruction was counted from its beginning. The only penalty would be in terms of the gains that a nation has obtain

That would make sense if the environmental destruction was counted from its beginning. The only penalty would be in terms of the gains that a nation has obtained thanks to its destruction. This should be used to finance green development on developing nations. The first ones to pay would be the inventors of agriculture (the largest source of environmental destruction). Then European explorers who cut all their trees to conquer the world. And so on.